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
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
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
Ever wonder what happened to the old liberal left
and right wing conservatism?
The
"Third Way" is the
Communitarian Way 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.
