Thursday, October 09, 2008
"[U]nfathomable ignorance"
I just ran across this quote while reading Francis Wheen's Karl Marx biography:
"[N]ever [has there been] a man whose bearing was so provoking and intolerable. To no opinion which differed from his own accord the honour of even condescending consideration. Everyone who contradicted him he treated with abject contempt; every argument that he did not like he answered either with biting scorn or unfathomable ignorance that had prompted it, or with opprobrious aspersions upon the motives of him who advanced it ... he denounced everyone who dared oppose his opinion."
That could also apply to some of the folks who read this blog. One thing they should keep in mind while cogitating upon that quote 'bout Marx: he was so loathed by his contemporaries that only ten people showed up for his funeral.
"[N]ever [has there been] a man whose bearing was so provoking and intolerable. To no opinion which differed from his own accord the honour of even condescending consideration. Everyone who contradicted him he treated with abject contempt; every argument that he did not like he answered either with biting scorn or unfathomable ignorance that had prompted it, or with opprobrious aspersions upon the motives of him who advanced it ... he denounced everyone who dared oppose his opinion."
That could also apply to some of the folks who read this blog. One thing they should keep in mind while cogitating upon that quote 'bout Marx: he was so loathed by his contemporaries that only ten people showed up for his funeral.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, October 09, 2008 
