Must Read: David Warren-The Tyranny of "But"

David Warren is an amazing writer and always has something interesting to say.

If you're looking for a good way to blow a couple of hours off, reading essays that will make you think, check out his web site.

For now, feast your eyes on this well-said, soft-spoken article that demonstrates the danger, and the 'tyranny of but'.

The Most Righteous David Warren: What We Fight For

No commentary needed-just a quote:

"The soldiers who fell in Normandy were not fighting for swimming pools and home entertainment centres. "

"They had before them a view of the dignity of man: of things worth more than life itself. The students who stood in Tiananmen Square -- who raised the home-made statue of Lady Liberty -- did not die for the sake of cellphones, and skyscrapers in Shanghai. They faced the tanks and bullets of the "People's Revolutionary Army" with something more substantial in their hearts."

"Yet the generation after them, there as here, has been largely bought off with the false promise of material prosperity. There, as here, we have agreed to become a kind of indentured labour, on the promise that we will be taken care of, cradle to grave."

"Let us at least celebrate, for a moment in time, men and women who were better than we are."