USS Clueless

I could post on Den Beste everyday. But today there are two entries I particularly want to point out. First, he writes of Europe and the US, and the ridiculous Wanker article on Europe as a "postmodern" state, and superior to merely "modern" America:

But that's not the limit to the arrogance here. There's also the underlying assumption that all nations actually follow, and should follow, the same path of advancement, and Europe quite naturally leads the world in this regard.

Missing is any recognition that there may be more than one answer, that the process of advancement might be a tree and not a ladder.

Also missing is any idea that maybe, just maybe, the US might have a better idea.

See, I wish I could do that. Then, he turns to Stephen Jay Gould. It's very fitting, because the idea of (biological) evolution as a tree, not a ladder, was one of Gould's favorite themes.