--- Maru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dr. Brin, good article. But you say that the > Fundamentalists are> promised the Supreme Court, and then say that all> three groups> have gotten their reward, but demand more (their> in-'satiability'> as you put it.). Now, I don't recall any Supreme > Court> nominations in the past four years, so isn't it a> tad inaccurate> to say so?
True enough. A better example of their obsession with form over substance would be abortion. Abortion RATES went down under Clinton and climbed under both Bushes. Pragmatically speaking, lessening the number should be the goal whether achieved by liberal means or not. But let's be fair. If infanticide were legal, a ten % drop in the rate would not stop you from being boiling mad. The real problem isn't pragmatic but philosophical. As romantics, each neocon subgroup must go for a whole loaf, never part of one. Compromise is for enlightenment humanists. > Also, you *could* recouncile the neo-cons and the> Left Behinders> if you push Judgement Day far off enough into the> future. After> all, you don't need eternity to build a star-going> empire led by> philospher-kings, just a large but finite amount of > time. True, but that takes ALL the wind out of the sails of the apocalypts. Geez the "Whore of Babylon Five" just sounds too sciencefictional to be taken seriously. Likewise an antimatter anti Christ." Doesn't satisfy as much as"The evil one is already among us." Of > course, it does seem a little pointless if God is > going to come > and make everything way better than mere humanity > ever could. > And also, I notice you reference the excerpt 'The > Philospher of > Islamic Terror', but not teh Book (Terror and > Liberalism). Why's > that? The book is well worth reading too. Got a web site ref? It sounds like a magnificent reach and a diatribe. OH! I am reading COLLAPSE by one of our civilization's real genius-treasures, Jared Diamond (GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL). It covers what factors brought about civ collapse in past societies and what factors allowed others to remain flexible enough to evade disaster. By his standards, this would be a positively insane administration in any measure. But his book has changed my mind. I NO LONGER think that the monsters' worst crime is dissipating our armed forces and deliberately destroying readiness by miring our best troops and using up the reserves. Worse has been the 20 years of lying and obfuscation about climate change. Ten years calling it a hoax. Ten years saying it exists but "we need more data"... and now "yes, it's big and humans did it, but now it's too late to do anything about it." Read Diamond's book. It says NOTHING about todays' politics. It says EVERYTHING about the destruction of our resiliency by morons. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
