QUOTE: Guns represent a worldview that, broadly defined, values the individual over the collective, vigorous outdoorsiness over pallid intellectualism, certainty over questioning, patriotism over internationalism, manliness over femininity, action over inaction, the Interior over the Coasts. If instead you value reason over force, skepticism over certainty, internationalism over American exceptionalism, multiculturalism over white-male hegemony, income leveling over jungle capitalism, peace over war – if youre a stereotypical liberal, for lack of a better word – and you feel more at home on the Coasts than in the Interior, youre inclined to see the gun as the emblem of your opponents worldview: his idol. A lot of my fellow liberals seem to think they can weaken their enemy by smashing his idol. Thus, the gun debate is really a way to talk about bigger differences for which we cant seem to find the vocabulary.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:29:39 +0000
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