Barrel of Monkeys: Genesis in Reverse: Liberal

BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse

I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.

As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........

Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......

Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......

How did I get here from there?

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Bleeding Heart of an Humanist: GERMANS IN THE WOODS

World English Dictionary

humanism (ˈhjuːməˌnɪzəm)

— n

1. the denial of any power or moral value superior to that of humanity; the rejection of religion in favour of a belief in the advancement of humanity by its own efforts

2. a philosophical position that stresses the autonomy of human reason in contradistinction to the authority of the Church

3. ( often capital ) a cultural movement of the Renaissance, based on classical studies

4. interest in the welfare of people

'humanist

— n

human'istic

— adj

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