What I find admirable about Glenn Beck is that he has performed a very simple, and invaluable role: he has seen work that needed to be done, and gone after it. Is he THE man for the job? Of course not. No one is. George Washington was not the man for the job, and he unquestionably spent many nights in deep despair.
The people who make a difference in this world are those who see work that needs to be done, look to see if it is getting done, and if not, step in and start. You will never be good enough. You will never be smart enough. But if you are there and start, miracles can happen.
As Teddy Roosevelt put it (and I do disagree with Glenn in his analysis of TR, although I will grant that his large ego, which put Wilson in the White House, was enormously damaging in 1912): “Do what you can, with what you have, and do it now.”
Those are words to live by. That is all this blog, and my other website, are: efforts to create at least one place on the internet dedicated to dealing seriously with questions of moral relativism, and in thinking through all important aspects of our current cultural and political life. Better thinking always leads to better doing.
I don’t get out much on the internet–I tend to go to the same places–but I don’t know of any blogs or websites quite like what I have created. This is what I did, with what I had, and what I will continue doing, with whatever I have in the future.