{"id":7560,"date":"2009-03-21T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T23:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7560"},"modified":"2010-06-26T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T17:27:22","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-id-prefer-one-gall-bladder-surgeon-to-fifty-botox-experts-a-good-perkins-engine-mechanic-to-1000-deconstructionists-at-the-mla-one-competent-chemist-to-fifty-governmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7560\/victor-davis-hanson-id-prefer-one-gall-bladder-surgeon-to-fifty-botox-experts-a-good-perkins-engine-mechanic-to-1000-deconstructionists-at-the-mla-one-competent-chemist-to-fifty-governmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: “I\u2019d prefer one gall bladder surgeon to fifty Botox experts, a good Perkins engine mechanic to 1,000 deconstructionists at the MLA, one competent chemist to fifty government attorneys.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson, a brilliant old Hellenist, here seeming more old than brilliant<\/a>, wonders, “Who is John Galt?”<\/p>\n

We sense we are trimmers and redistributors, and wouldn’t dare build a new dam a transcontinental railroad, a new 8-lane freeway.<\/p>\n

Instead we would sue, file reports, argue, quit, delay—anything other than conceive a majestic idea and finish it, sighing, “It is not perfect, but damn good enough and will do.” Instead, here in California we are simply destroying agriculture by drying up its sources of water-giving life—a once brilliant farming that was the sum total of millions of brave lives from 1880 to 2000 who took a desert and fed the world.<\/p>\n

Instead, ensconced in the Berkeley Hills or Woodside, our elites demand of better others to save for them not people, but a smelt, a minnow, or a newt-like creature that must have the entire Kings or San Joaquin River as it dumps its precious cargo out to sea.<\/p>\n

So as scare snow melts, it goes out to the ocean, gratifying a lawyer or professor in Palo Alto that rivers flow as they did in the 19th-century, as millions of acres go fallow, hundreds of thousands lose jobs, and we feel so morally superior to those of the past who really were our moral superiors.<\/p>\n

It is easy to dismiss our ancestors as illiberal, or with the caveat “Oh, but if we were as poor as they were, we’d have to prove just as tough”, but we still sense they were different in the sense of far better. When I drive up to see those Sierra dams poured in the 1920s, one wonders how they made such things with only primitive machines, and in contrast, are amazed with our sophisticated tools, we do so much less. <\/p>\n

This self-congratulatory generation can hardly, as we are learning, build a Bay Bridge again. Yet when we see on the Internet pictures of a new aircraft carrier we are stunned in amazement—we did that? We built such a powerful, sophisticated ship? We—at least someone— can actually still do things on rare occasion like that?<\/p>\n

The American people are, to be frank, nauseated Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson, a brilliant old Hellenist, here seeming more old than brilliant, wonders, “Who is John Galt?” We sense we are trimmers and redistributors, and wouldn’t dare build a new dam a transcontinental railroad, a new 8-lane freeway. 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