Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
[snip]
> In fact we are
> suffering a non-logical breakdown in the marketplace at present where it
> would make more sense to stop, think and plan as well as put the crooks in
> jail but we insist upon civil rights for the wealthy crooks while
> incarcerating the lower class guerellas forever in Cuba on evidence that is
> evidentily so poor that they won't even let us see it.
[snip]
Perhaps some other persons on this list besides
me remember the American clap-trap about "the end of ideology",
or, more recently, Prof. Fukuyama's apparently telling us we
are the end [i.e., fulfillment] of history.
But none of those prophets, as far as I know, ever meant by an end to
ideology, to achieve reflective perspective
on all ideologies, esp. our own.
I think Ray has described something very much like a real
and constructive end of ideology. Or, as Joseph Weizenbaum
said about computer science back around 1978:
I hope that as our discipline matures, its practitioners
will mature also, and that, whatever we are doing, we will
think about it, so that those who come after us will not
wish we had not done it.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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