ok, back to work

If you were reading before my wedding, you'll remember I was just getting into an interesting discussion with Adam Smith. But then, I went and got married and he went and moved and we sort of lost touch and stopped blogging for a bit - marriage and moving may have that effect.

But in between then and now, we did exchange a few e-mails and Adam even wrote a really funny/ironic piece to help me at my day job.

As for our personal beef, here's a recap. He was worried that fundamentalist Christians were attempting to gain power and influence in order to use that power and influence to hasten the end of the world, and I said there may be a few of those folks, but not enough to merit hysteria.

So Adam got in the last word, posting this just a few days before my wedding. After reading that post, which I must confess was only yesterday, I now see that we're onto another topic: strident utopians.

I agree with Adam on this one, but, it seems he is picking on one particular type of utopians (some small % of fundy christians) and leaving others alone (some small % of capitalists, some small % of scientists, some small % of socialists, etc.). Crazy utopians are alive and well in many camps, attempting to bring about what they think is a more perfect world, usually at the expense of other groups. That's pretty much the way history works.

I think Adam and I would agree that it would be more preferable to have "moderates" in charge of everything from the schools to the busnisses to the government. Unfortunately, there's a lot of money to be made and power to be wielded if things were otherwise. So we're left always scrambling to find wholesome folks, whatever their stripes, to struggle against those who have been a bit more tainted by those vapory things - money and power and all those naughty things.

Now it's getting late and I have to go to bed. But, as I sit listening to the 7 train rumble past my front window, I wonder . . . who is this neat-handed buck instructing me on the ways of my borough? Maybe I should add the CitiBank building to my header image to clear up any confusion there.