{"id":2763,"date":"2003-01-03T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2003-01-03T09:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2003-01-03T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2003-01-03T09:34:11","slug":"into-decency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2763","title":{"rendered":"INTO DECENCY"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the cookies I’ve gotten for doing this is the opportunity to ‘meet’ (and sometimes even meet) some really amazing people. There was a flurry of well-wishing emails among bloggers on New Year’s, and one that I sent to Jeff Cooper<\/a> started me thinking as I rode in this morning.
\nI told him what a pleasure it was to have made his acquaintance, and that I was impressed by his intelligence, knowledge, and most of all by the obvious decency that shines through everything he writes.
\nAnd I started realizing that decency is another of those undervalued traits; it is not unique to the Left or Right, or much appreciated by either. As Jimmy Carter showed, it alone is not enough for a leader. In fact it may be a value that is absent in most great leaders\u0085Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman\u0085hmmm I need to think about this…but it is a value I cherish in the people I choose to associate with and a value that is somehow demeaned in our culture.
\nWe value honesty, passion, those who hew to absolute values. Simple decency isn\u0092t enough.
\nThat\u0092s too bad. From the dictionary:
\ndecent [di snt]
\nadj.
\n1. polite or respectable: a decent family.<\/i>
\n2. proper and suitable; fitting: a decent burial.<\/i>
\n3. conforming to conventions of sexual behaviour; not indecent.
\n4. free of oaths, blasphemy, etc.: decent language.<\/i>
\n5. good or adequate: a decent wage.<\/i>
\n6. Informal.<\/i> kind; generous: he was pretty decent to me.<\/i>
\n7. Informal.<\/i> sufficiently clothed to be seen by other people: are you decent?<\/I>
\n[from Latin decens<\/I> suitable, from decree<\/I> to be fitting]
\nWe\u0092re talking bourgeois values here. And one of the things that I\u0092m muddling toward is an articulation and defense of those values.
\nDamn, even I<\/b> can’t believe that I’m doing this…
\n(forgot a clause)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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