Friday, July 1, 2011
The Value of Nuance... Another Voice
I put in a note the other day about the value of nuance. On the same topic, here's the great pianist, Emmanuel Ax, in a letter in today's New York Times. It's a response to last week's snarky column by Maureen Dowd. I trust the President knows there are many of us out here in the "reality-based world" who do value nuance, and understand it to be essential to good government. It is not, as some take it to be, a sign of weakness (read The Art of War!) but rather one of intelligence and respect, both qualities in which a large number of our politicians are noticeably lacking.
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Nuance is propaganda of the most exquisite art. At the end of the day, if you are dying for lack of health care, living on reduced SS and unable to put a roof over a family's head, nuance doesn't mean diddly. Nuance is the luxury of secure bourgeois intellectualism. Marx was absolutely correct in this area as he ( I know) nuanced Hegel for moral absolutes.
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