Summarize Previous Poster's Political Beliefs

[The Mikado]

Oakvale is a good friend.

Oakvale's a diehard Sinn Fein Irish Nationalist, constantly talking about the need to retake Ulster and of the value of Irish-language education in preserving Irish nationality.  Oakvale's political activities tend to lean to burning the Union Jack on March 17th and picking random letters of the alphabet and forming new chapters of the IRA under them.  (QIRA, ZIRA, XIRA...)

[The Mikado]

Thoughtfully integrates Postmodern insights into his views without turning tedious and unreadable, opposed to Positivism and carrying a healthy distrust of Progress, combining leftist instincts with an instinctive intellectual hostility towards snap judgements and the arrogant presumption of intellectual superiority that so many on the left have...indeed, given his Foucauldian background, he even has a healthy distrust of the entire basis of the foundations of "knowledge" that underpins intellectual thought to begin with.

[The Mikado]

Dammit, PR, you totally skipped me, and then you did Nathan despite him putting Skip in his post.

[The Mikado]

Somehow we went through an entire page without anyone actually doing me despite both Yelnoc and me pointing out the error.  I hold you to blame for this, Progressive Realist.

Getting back on track: TJ is very much a traditionalist RCC intellectual, and part of a rich thought tradition.  Is more instinctively conservative than ideologically, being skeptical of mad rushes towards changes in policy.  His background in the hard sciences and obvious smarts make him deeply skeptical of demagogues.