Aside from Andrew Sullivan’s considerable gifts as a writer, much of the value of his blog lies in his calling attention to unique, important expressions emailed to him by his readers. Of his scads of pithy and illuminating recent posts, this one affected me the most by bringing to my attention the video clip below. Major kudos to Sullivan.
At its core, Bronowski’s message is in no way political. It’s about hubris. With this in mind, it is at the very least profoundly sobering that our current president demanded — and was granted — full, unimpeachable authority to seize any person, anywhere, to detain that person indefinitely without charge or trial, and to determine what (mis)treatment of that prisoner is or is not torture. Among other things. You’ve gotta be pretty thoroughly immersed in your own moral universe to even reach for that kind of absolute power.
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