Labels

This will be my first post in half a year. Frankly, the world no longer needed me once Obama was coronated. But I'm back and with no particular agenda. Maybe just to give you intermittent breaks from the news flashes of our inevitable death-march toward socialism that your used to here on TTKS.

During the holidays I select a couple of good books to digest along with the ungodly amount of sugar and lard I plan to consume. This year I'm going to tackle Approaching Zion by Hugh Nibley. I got a head start on it due to its massive content. I'm not yet 100 pages in but already enthralled. Here's an excerpt that has me thinking about the labels I've subscribed to that help me to simplify who's right and who's wrong:

Every rhetorician knows that his most effective weapons by far are labels. He
can demolish the opposition with simple and devastating labels such as
communism, socialism, or atheism, popery, militarism, or Mormonism, or give his
clients' worst crimes a religious glow with noble labels such as integrity,
old-fashioned honesty, tough-mindedness, or free competitive enterprise. "You
can get away with anything if you just wave the flag," a business partner of my
father once told me. He called that patriotism.