The best of intentions
"In the manifest failure of their abilities, they take credit for their intentions."
Edmund Burke
Sowell distinguishes here:
"It is hardly surprising that young people prefer the political Left. The only reason for rejecting the Left’s vision is that the real world in which we live is very different from the world that the Left perceives today or envisions for tomorrow.
Most of us learn that from experience — but experience is precisely what the young are lacking.
'Experience' is often just a fancy word for the mistakes that we belatedly realized we were making, only after the realities of the world made us pay a painful price for being wrong."
Thanks, David.
Edmund Burke
Sowell distinguishes here:
"It is hardly surprising that young people prefer the political Left. The only reason for rejecting the Left’s vision is that the real world in which we live is very different from the world that the Left perceives today or envisions for tomorrow.
Most of us learn that from experience — but experience is precisely what the young are lacking.
'Experience' is often just a fancy word for the mistakes that we belatedly realized we were making, only after the realities of the world made us pay a painful price for being wrong."
Thanks, David.
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