true believers, of all sorts
--- frank scott wrote:
> re the charles sanders pierce quote
>
> "..."the method of tenacity." This
> method involves simply pouncing on a belief that
> seems appealing and
> holding to it come hell or high water. ... the main
> advantage
> of this method is that it is simple and quick, and
> effectively ends the
> discomfort. On the other hand, the principal
> disadvantage,...
> is that one frequently chooses a belief that happens
> to be wrong, which
> can lead to a lot of trouble."
>
> this is true, and hardly covers only bushites and
> their
> religiosity...substitute any believers in the
> judeo-christian mythology
> of sons of god and real estate deals with god, or
> the people having fits
> over a "stolen" election, with the devil incarnate
> and king of evil
> doers responsible, etc.
>
> you pays your money and you picks your
> fundamentalist fanatics...as the
> old socialist said, it's all relative...
>
It also covers too many firm believers in the timeless wisdom of certain old German emigres or Russian revolutionaties . . . .
^^^^
CB: Actually, no. It applies much more to those who cling to the substantially older bourgeois legalism and liberal proceduralism.