tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5742647201589143590.post5535804340907324095..comments2023-08-20T06:38:57.670-07:00Comments on Bibliological Bibble-Babble: Notting Hill and Other Mountains I Have ClimbedBrian Carpentierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06040006971465414722noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5742647201589143590.post-45607347736599543042008-09-02T23:18:00.000-07:002008-09-02T23:18:00.000-07:00I begin to think this post is an utter failure. pe...I begin to think this post is an utter failure. perhaps my words were so widely interpreted because I really didn't know what I wanted to say. An author should write clearly and precisely so as to be understood, something I evidently failed to do. I meant "Individual sovereignty" of nations or states (or towns even, as in Chesterton's story)not of individual human beings. I meant That a local people should be able to enjoy life, liberty, and property on their own terms and not be imposed upon by a world dictator, be it aristocracy or democracy. For example, as you know, here in America, the Constitution originally arraigned for the individual states to retain their sovereignty in all but a few areas of policy that were surrendered to the national government.Brian Carpentierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06040006971465414722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5742647201589143590.post-89507572644060492262008-08-30T12:25:00.000-07:002008-08-30T12:25:00.000-07:00"Individual sovereignty"? What is that? Sounds a b..."Individual sovereignty"? What is that? Sounds a bit like the "Mystery Clause" in the constitution that Kennedy of our ruling aristocracy on the Court discovered and declared as the individual's right to define the meaning (mystery) of life for himself or herself. That way, of course, lies madness (anarchy). Perhaps it would be better to say "individual liberty" of conscience, a right recently rejected by the California Supreme Court when it declared that a doctor must inseminate a lesbian even if he believes the procedure to be sinful.David Haddonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03228599724811008580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5742647201589143590.post-1255932893349053052008-08-09T23:55:00.000-07:002008-08-09T23:55:00.000-07:00I see what you mean. Patriotic probably is a bette...I see what you mean. Patriotic probably is a better word, also perhaps society or culture would have worked. I still think it is political, although not necessarily in the limited sense of "party politics," but rather in how people govern themselves and what sort of culture they develop ("colors, symbols, heraldry, identity" as you so neatly put it).Brian Carpentierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06040006971465414722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5742647201589143590.post-40123483599867034102008-08-08T21:53:00.000-07:002008-08-08T21:53:00.000-07:00Do you really think Notting Hill is political? Pe...Do you really think Notting Hill is political? Perhaps it's splitting hairs, but I think it's more patriotic. It's about colors, symbols, heraldry, identity. It's about having something solid to stand on, and stand for. <BR/><BR/><I>On this good earth<BR/>I bid you stand, <BR/>men of the West!</I><BR/><BR/>Chesterton excels at portraying the romantic in the ordinary. That's one of the major reasons his books are so fun to read.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16511120181544360746noreply@blogger.com