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Thursday, April 14, 2005


Isn't Andrew Sullivan supposed to be on hiatus?

Here's Andrew commenting on David Frum's observation that Andrea Dworkin shared some of the perceptions of the religious/cultural right (or "theocons," as Sullivan would have it these days) regarding pornography and the rhetoric of personal liberation :

And [Dworkin] shared with Frum a deep suspicion of people who believe they are free and act accordingly.

Well, duh, Andrew. Don't we all? Isn't that what we have laws for? I mean, you're a clever guy, but you have a tendency to let glibness overtake sense when it's a matter of scoring points against the dreaded super-dee-duper-evil theocons. Lots of people, including myself, think we are radically free, in a moral and existential sense. It's the "acting accordingly" that gets a little tricky (see here, for example). Certainly there are degrees of freedom and "acting accordingly," but to be deeply suspicious of the whole dynamic seems to me concommitant with acknowledging its reality.

Am I being glib? Yes, but I figure one glib turn deserves another.

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