-- This may be true, but when it comes to the religious right, (by way of example), Jerry Falwell believes that he has a pipeline to "God" and that God has sanctioned the war in Iraq as being just. Multiply such thinking by millions, and we have the current situation!
- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Progressive blogger Glenn Greenwald has a post > on Salon.com suggesting that a pervasive, > profound, and highly positive change is taking > place in the political atmosphere. > > Greenwald quotes from a comment left by one > of his readers yesterday on Greenwald's previous > post concerning Bill Moyers' recent documentary > on the media in the runup to the Iraq war: > > "I have to say that a remarkably intimate, yet expansive, community > of thought seems to be forming across television, film, and the > Internet. There's a rather quiet, yet intense, movement of thought > and expression building. It focuses not so much on any particular > ideology ("right" or "left"), but on a common, critical-mass thirst > to dispel the deception, irrationality, and utter hubris that has > been corroding our proud country for what seems like an eternity. > > "An undeniable intellectual and social confluence is rapidly gaining > momentum and solidarity. This solidarity is amazingly organic, not > hierarchical -- its only guide is the sixth sense of skepticism, > outrage, and, yes, reason. It transcends party. It is oceanic, > atmospheric. An intellectual, moral, societal, and psychological > gestalt as ancient as humanity itself, kept underfoot by a long > winter, but indelibly germinating once again with the thaw. > > "It is literally everywhere now. The voices of blindness and rage > cannot shake me anymore. I haven't felt such hope in a very long > time." > > Gotta hope he's right. The language struck me, > because it isn't about specific events but rather > something that sounds suspiciously like what one > might call increased coherence in mass consciousness. > > Read the whole post: > http://tinyurl.com/3dc5ya >
