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_The New Age Progressive Radical Center_
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October 31, 2007 01:13:12
Posted By Bobby
The following information was gathered in an affort to answer the
question: Who is Newt Gingrich?
On November 11, 1994, in a post-election victory speech, Republican House
member Newt Gingrich revealed to Congress what his Contract With America,
his Republican Revolution, was in fact about. (1) He called it the Third
Way, a "progressive" movement he would interchangeably refer to as the Third
Way, the Third Wave, or Conservative Futurism in speech after speech from
that point forward. He recommended the reading of two books, for those
ambitious enough to decipher its meaning: the first, "The Third Wave" by
"ex"-Marxist Alvin Toffler, and the second, " " by "ex"-Marxist Marvin Olasky,
founding father of George W. Bush's Compassionate Conservatism.
- _Technology, sovereignty and the Third Wave_
(http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0601thirdwayp1.htm)
So, What is the Third Way really?
In 1980, Marilyn Ferguson set forth in The Aquarian Conspiracy a "common
ground/consensus" model where the Far Left and the Far Right can compromise
and reach agreement on individual issues. In a chapter titled "The Power of
the Radical Center," Ms. Ferguson asserts that Truth is arrived at via
consensus, whereas extremes on any issue are merely half-truths:
"The political perspective of the Aquarian Conspiracy is best described as
a kind of Radical Center. Its not neutral, not middle-of-the-road, but a
view of the whole road.
- _THE THIRD WAY Politics Of The Radical Center_
(http://www.watch.pair.com/thirdway.html)
Now how did it happen that the "Radical Left" of the 1960's
counter-culture (which became the New Age) came to be in the Radical Center"
of politics?
Recall the Hegelian Dialectic that it constitutes a method of social
change?
Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary defines the Hegelian
Dialectic in terms of equally assertable propositions that are reconciled by
embracing a third proposition which is a "higher truth" -
"Hegelian Dialectic, Hegelianism. An interpretive method, originally used
to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some
assertable proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally
assertable and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis), the mutual
contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third
proposition (synthesis)."
- _THE THIRD WAY Politics Of The Radical Center_
(http://www.watch.pair.com/thirdway.html)
Ever wonder what happened to the old liberal left and right wing
conservatism?
The _"Third Way" is the Communitarian Way_
(http://nord.twu.net/acl/thirdway.html) as my friend Niki Raapana has shown,
and its bigger than you could
ever imagine. I wonder if Ron Paul knows about this?
The Third Way came back into focus with last Novembers elections and
Gingrich is a good friend of the Democrats. We can expect to be seeing a lot
more of him in the future.
Thanks to the "Progressive Radical Center" and the "higher truth" wrought
by the majik of consensus, we are all being transformed into communitarian
socialists, realizing the synthesis in the Dialectic method.
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