Andrew Brietbart died in large part because he couldn’t stop mattering in the news, in his blog, in the culture war.
This is how Andrew Sullivan describes his demise.
I’ll be quite happy to disappoint my eight loyal readers if I have grandchildren show up unexpectedly or take the trip of a lifetime or if there is a blizzard followed by a day with sticky snow with which to make a snow sculpture.
I think I’d be a useful Congressmen in large part because I still understand and try to live by goals that really are worthwhile and enriching.
Being elected is important and Minnesota’s Senator McCarthy was being a little too cynical when he looked at Hubert Humphrey and proclaimed that politics was no more important than an athletic competition. What ex-seminarian McCarthy probably really meant was that we all die and in the end our lives aren’t that big a deal to the cosmos. It sounds like a libel against God especially coming from a theologian.
I’d say that a life is precious precisely because it is so fleeting. I rather pity people who do not wish to make anything of their life between the dust to dust episodes. By making something of a life I sure don’t mean ginning up lies about someone with a different political point of view. If that’s why Andrew Breitbart died it really is a shame.
