My wife brought home Tony Jones' "The New Christians" and plopped it down in front of me tonight. I've read the first forty pages or so.
It just got me thinking about how a lot of the political conversation in this presidential primary season has been about how right and left have missed the point. The success of the non-conservative Republican, the non-establishment Democrat, and even the net-savvy congressman who is as Republican as I am Baptist strike me as postmodern.
But my main reaction is that I'm not bright enough for this conversation. I'm only forty pages in, so I'm reserving judgement. This is just a record of my reaction at this point.
As long as the intellectual rigor is reserved for the leaders, then perhaps this has promise. As soon as it is required of the masses, then I have to say that "American Gladiators" and "Knight Rider" have returned to prime time.
Posted to Interior Life at February 16, 2008 11:34 PM