Metastasized ignorance at work
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Editor,
In response to Mr. Jim Pettit’s letter in the March 28 edition of the Valley Journal, I must opine that I find the quote from Edmund Burke to be rather apropos. Here is a quote on Mr. Burke that gives us a good view into his character.
“The sycophant — who in the pay of the English oligarchy played the romantic laudator temporis acti against the French Revolution just as, in the pay of the North American colonies at the beginning of the American troubles, he had played the liberal against the English oligarchy — was an out-and-out vulgar bourgeois. ‘The laws of commerce are the laws of Nature, and therefore the laws of God.’ (E. Burke, l.c., pp. 31, 32) No wonder that, true to the laws of God and Nature, he always sold himself in the best market.”
Mr. Pettit seems to think this is the worst of times? If I may, here is quote from the immoral Charles Dickens that gives us some perspective.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.”
Mr. Pettit likes to engage in fancy knowledge representation, extending the truth-set underlying a given logic with values expressing ignorance and contradiction. This leads to uncertainty. Tis folly to live in such illusion, deception and willful ignorance.
I should say that Mr. Pettit is a political narcissist who takes from the government and condemns it at the same time.
In closing, I would like to point out that ignorance is like a cancer that metastasizes and corrupts, resulting in a condition called “malignorance” — metastasized ignorance.
Phillip F. Crenshaw
Ronan
