Should: The liberal's playground
Gal Gadot's recent viral video of her and other stars singing John Lennon's Imagine rekindled a couple of ideas I have been trying to articulate for a while. Besides the video being a shameless, virtue-signaling, self-serving, void of substance fare you expect from Hollywood types, the song itself has always seemed to me a perfect example of liberal and progressive thought: wishing for something that cannot be ("Imagine there's no countries"). One of the foundational differences between conservatives and liberals is their belief and understanding of how the world works. That is stating the obvious, I know, but sometimes the obvious tempts one into failing to really analyze the obvious, or at least see the complexity that lies beneath. Specifically, I am talking about how the world is ordered and our species interacts. Or to put it a different way, the fundamental difference is that liberals tend to be idealist, while conservatives err on the re...