As a related aside, the next time you hear someone brush off what's going on in the Middle East as just "those people over there" doing what they've been doing for thousands of years, you might point out that Christians aren't exactly faring very well these days, either, nor are the streets of Europe.
Its like Shlomo HaMelech said, "All is vanity". Moyers, like those in every generation, in every society down through the ages have supposed that their achievements, their ideology, their intellectuality, their audience, has granted them morally superior judgment. He, like the others, fails, or refuses to believe that others in generations before him could have ever soared to these levels of wisdom. "Obviously, morons, its genetic," he magnanimously informs us. Condescending to us to let us draw our own conclusions. Eugenics any one? The level of self importance and conceit that would allow Moyers, or anyone to pass judgment on the Jewish nation in this way shows staggering vanity. The same empty vanity that Shlomo HaMelech alluded to that has led to the deaths of millions of Jews (and other innocents) down through the ages. Racism is putting it mildly.
I enjoy this. Moyers has always been a poor thinker and a self important schmuck. I never thought he was an anti-semite, but people like him reflect the fashion of the day and that's all this statement is really telling us.
Its like Shlomo HaMelech said, "All is vanity". Moyers, like those in every generation, in every society down through the ages have supposed that their achievements, their ideology, their intellectuality, their audience, has granted them morally superior judgment. He, like the others, fails, or refuses to believe that others in generations before him could have ever soared to these levels of wisdom. "Obviously, morons, its genetic," he magnanimously informs us. Condescending to us to let us draw our own conclusions. Eugenics any one? The level of self importance and conceit that would allow Moyers, or anyone to pass judgment on the Jewish nation in this way shows staggering vanity. The same empty vanity that Shlomo HaMelech alluded to that has led to the deaths of millions of Jews (and other innocents) down through the ages. Racism is putting it mildly.
I enjoy this. Moyers has always been a poor thinker and a self important schmuck. I never thought he was an anti-semite, but people like him reflect the fashion of the day and that's all this statement is really telling us.
Moyers loved to suck up to joseph campbell and loved to replay his interviews with campbell.
joseph campbell, not a friend of Judaism.