[Platt] ...but for the most part it was the morality that underpinned the building of American and the West, making it a fountainhead of freedom and prosperity.
[Krimel] Slaughtering people and stealing their land is your idea of morality? [Platt] Then the intellectuals took control with their amoral scientific worldview (SOM) and its been pretty much downhill ever since. [Krimel] The rule of America by intellectuals has been spotty and brief. I assume the intellectuals you mean were Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Hamilton et al. They were mostly displaced following in Jackson and didn't return until Wilson. The intellectuals of the Roosevelt era thoughtfully put in place controls that leveled the cycle of boom and bust but the anti-intellectuals following Raygun reasserted stupidity as the virtue you most love to expound upon. [Platt] Our "slouching toward Gomorrah" is well documented in Pirsig's "Lila," an original philosophy which has been met by intellectuals with a predictable lack of enthusiasm because it challenges their faith in politically correct thinking. [Krimel] So you prefer "marching toward Armageddon" with choirs of angels cheering you to victory over the demons of darkness. "This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper." -T.S. Elliot "My, my, hey, hey... Rock and Roll is here to stay It's better to burn out Than to fade away My, my, hey, hey..." -Neil Young Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
