Opus 2021-082: Liberal Thought

Julian taught me to think.  He did it by disagreeing with everything I said.  It didn’t matter what it was, he would take the other side and argue me into the ground.  It was great fun.  He didn’t do it with the equivalent of “Orange Man bad”.  He did it with logic and facts.  I miss those days.

Julian was an unregenerated liberal.  He remained that until the day he died, young, with MS.  He did not see the inconsistency of having an illegal as a housemaid in his big home on the side of the hill while he pleaded for the poor.  But then, he was a liberal.  I said he used logic and facts.  His logic was not good and his facts were wrong.  That didn’t stop him.  We had some great times.

We walked to school together before we got our drivers’ licenses.  It was about two miles and that gave us plenty of time to wear each other down.  He went on to Berkeley.  I ended up at a private Christian college.  One reason I miss those days is that I knew a liberal with a brain.  They are few and far between.  In time the liberalism overwhelms the brain and they become enemies to society.  

Oh, did I mention that he became a reporter?  I am not sure which came first, the job or the loss of integrity.  I am sure he would be glad to hear he helped me learn to think but would feel like a failure because I never toed his party line.

homo unius libri