If your chief goal, as a thinking person, is to find a path to making yourself right, you may never amount to much of a thinking person, but you can never be disappointed.
Gets followed up by this one:
It must be admitted that Juan Williams is, himself, no stranger to such pursuits, and that the unerringly righteous are, ultimately, deserving of each other.
...and then he drops Jane Austen. Epic.
It's also interesting as a reflection on what it means to be wrong. Not in the sense of accidentally wrong about some particular fact, but about a core belief. I'm interested in this problem because the second half of my freshman seminar is going to spend a lot of time thinking about this problem in the context of World War II. This is the problem of Eichmann; this is the problem of the Polish farmer in Shoah who cannot quite make the connection as to why the trainloads of people taken to the concentration camp next to his farm should concern him. It's also the problem of the deliberate and half-intentional construction of the UN and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in such a way that they preserve and maintain then-current distributions of power. That is to say: it's everywhere in political life, and attempting to avoid it seems like it should be the highest goal that people should aspire to.
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