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Idealists believe in subjective resolve; realists believe in objective constraints.
It is likely that one's taste deteriorates under the continuous barrage of vulgarity: many who today admire the dadaists, cubists, surrealists, hard-edge realists, nonobjective and abstract artists would have reviled them, along with a significant percentage of the population, had they been dalive when their paintings first appeared, just as staid, conservative critics condemned the impressionists and advocates of other nouvelles vagues . Is it that we gradually become accustomed to what we first perceive as trash--as vulgarity--and become inured to it, or that we come to understand and, if not enamored of it, at least tolerate it as a legitimate form of expression?
Idealists preach responsibility and courage, which realists dismiss as hubris and folly.
"The bombing has not made much difference" and has "strengthened the resolve of the Serbian people," House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, alleged Sunday on Meet the Press . Likewise, realists view American lack of resolve as an objective limit on the war's prosecution.
But that's because I belong to the camp he's specifically arguing against: the "minimal realists," who think the country doesn't have to accept every symbolic challenge.