A passing grade

Tomorrow is blog #100 into my 4th year. To attain a perfect score in life ( 100%) is to ascertain truths. Life is the quest for truth and the pleasure therein derived. I think of two men, my neighbors, each without a wife, each therefore, ‘with’ a life rather than without as some male burn victims (of women) believe. On the contrary, other males believe (as Clark Gable) that "the happiest sound in the world is that of the footsteps of the one you love (assumed a woman) approaching the other side of the door." Happy conjugal love between two souls of the opposite sex yearns for a physical and spiritual union both on earth and beyond. The Greek myth of Philamon and Baucis comes to mind in which love turns into a permanent conjunction when the god Hermes waves his caduceus and "two trees rustled up those branches met and touched when the wind blew." This paragraph has been dedicated to truth.

But not this my second paragraph concerned with liberal thought. Conservatives see liberalism associated with "profligacy, spinelessness, malevolence, masochism, elitism, fantasy, anarchy, idealism, softness, irresponsibility and sanctimoniousness. In contrast, conservatism connotes "pragmatism, character, reciprocity, truthfulness, stoicism, manliness, realism, hardness, vengeance, strictness and responsibility." To David Frum, however, "all this came undone after 2000" (when George W. Bush became President). Why? Because liberals lie to themselves and live in a world that upends truth. Conservatism is evil; liberalism good. Their life journey, therefore, can never achieve a passing grade.