How close to now does someone have to be before they are responsible for their own views, instead of being excused by their age?
It's complicated by the fact that a lot of ideas are going to be flying around in any particular age. Who's the stanard of our age? (Note: If it's Antonin Scalia -- and you could probably raise at least a half-sound argument that it is -- you're starting from a very different base than if it's Howard Dean.)
My view -- and I won't apply it to Lewis because I haven't read his work -- is that I won't let incidental examples of the views of an age spoil my enjoyment of something. For example, I won't turn against a 1930s movie just because the only black character is a maid or the porter on a train. Now, if the character's part involves being a living embodiment of racist stereotypes, it's a very different story.
I was wondernig why the web recap of the game wasn't updating.
But I like it when you're blabby and opinionated. I learn stuff.
That is one of the reasons why Wrigley Field is so beloved, DXM--they've done an excellent job of keeping the advertising to a bare minimum.
Note: If it's Antonin Scalia -- and you could probably raise at least a half-sound argument that it is -- you're starting from a very different base than if it's Howard Dean.
Yes, this. Exactly.
[eta: And you know, I'm not even going to bother pointing out that I am, in fact, a huge Tolkien fan. Doesn't mean I have to like/enjoy/identify with/forgive everything about either the man or his works.]
Also, I've been too blabby and opinionated.
No such thing!
My view -- and I won't apply it to Lewis because I haven't read his work -- is that I won't let incidental examples of the views of an age spoil my enjoyment of something. For example, I won't turn against a 1930s movie just because the only black character is a maid or the porter on a train. Now, if the character's part involves being a living embodiment of racist stereotypes, it's a very different story.
What he said. Except I can even get past characters being living embodiments of stereotypes, sometimes, depending.
My cafeteria lunch had yummy yummy Yukon Gold mashed potatoes and I am NOT going to eat any more of my much too generous serving.
Who's the standard of our age? (Note: If it's Antonin Scalia -- and you could probably raise at least a half-sound argument that it is --
Hope not. For one thing, I hope my age is not characterized by pointless crabbiness.
In ballpark news, the Red Sox game is under way. In the introduction of the players, all the Yankees got booed as expected, except Mariano Rivera, who got cheered wildly for giving up the hits that let us win last week. He laughed about it, tipped his cap.
I have skipped lunch. This is assuredly a mistake. What lunch can be achieved at 3pm, I wonder?
In ballpark news, the Red Sox game is under way. In the introduction of the players, all the Yankees got booed as expected, except Mariano Rivera, who got cheered wildly for giving up the hits that let us win last week. He laughed about it, tipped his cap.
That reminds me, the game is on tv here, so I need to get out of work sharp so I can catch the end of it.
I won't let incidental examples of the views of an age spoil my enjoyment of something.
I think it's a complicated issue. For me, much depends on what kind of "view" it reveals (I'm more forgiving of sexism in the 1930s than anti-semitism or fascism, for example). And what kind of writing it is. It's easier for me to pin a label onto a work of art than onto the artist who created it, unless that artist has made it abundantly clear in his/her personal and polemical writings that he/she shared that worldview.
