2BHuman » Humanity http://blog.2bhuman.net Trying to think of a tagline . . . Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:10:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 The Pursuit of Paradoxical Projects http://blog.2bhuman.net/2009/04/08/the-pursuit-of-paradoxical-projects/ http://blog.2bhuman.net/2009/04/08/the-pursuit-of-paradoxical-projects/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:35:51 +0000 Matthew Eppinette http://blog.matthewandginger.com/?p=102 Continue reading →]]> Books & Culture has an interview with the always excellent Jean Bethke Elshtain where she discusses, among other things, her assertion:

In our own liberal society at the moment, and in most of the Western democracies in general, we are pursuing a paradoxical project: We are most aware of those with physical and mental disabilities; we want to provide them access. Yet at the same time, our most enthused-about and ideologically fraught projects aim at creating a world with no such persons in it.

Highly recommended reading.

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