The 20 things

I said I was a purple person, in my own self. I had not carefully read Grant's post, in which he asks for:

The 20 cultural documents that one side should master in order to “get” what the other side is saying.

The 20 cultural Items that the Left Feels or Proposes the Right Really Study to Understand Where We Are Coming From (--with proposer)

1. Marx brothers movies: Duck Soup, The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, and Horse Feathers--Grant McCracken


2. How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich--Keelay


3. To Kill A Mockingbird--M E L


4. Any well-written first person account of the Great Depression/Vietnam. The energy and vitality of the Democratic Party was embodied in FDR and the Warren Court. They've been living off that ever since, and now it's pretty old.--Brock


5. To understand Blue States requires you to forget "the big picture" and concentrate on the human tragedies inflicted upon innocents in a world they cannot control. "It's not their fault, they're just victims."

The 20 Cultural Items that the Right Feels or Proposes the Left Really Study To Understand Where We Are Coming From (--with proposer)

1. Hours of conversation with Leonard Liggiobecause Leonard understands the compassion that drives many leftists. --Liz Ditz


2. How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich--Keelay


3. The Searchers (film)--M E L


4. Animal House--Grant (for repudiating 60s)


5. Bill Whittle Build A Model American--Brock


6. The Road to Serfdom (cartoon version) and Full Text

There is another, connected discussion at the Belmont Club: Cardinal George Pell asks a question which is neither completely secular nor religious whether democracy must of necessity be spiritually empty. Not whether it can occasionally be, but whether it must be.

Comments

[Lester Spence]

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Three Feet High and Rising by De La Soul
The OmniAmerican by Albert Murray
The Miner's Canary by Lani Guinier and Gerard Torres

More if i get a chance.