Its not as bad as it looks. Well, maybe it is, and maybe its worse, but mostly I was curious about this approach simply because it is very different despite using some of the same ideas we make use of. But, yeah, they play pin-ball with the table tilted. Billy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- message dated 8/25/2011 9:17:37 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Visiting the Fevered Swamp here lately, eh Billy?? DUDE. David _ "There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head."--P. J. O'Rourke On 8/25/2011 10:33 AM, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) wrote: Congregator.Net Blog _The New Age Progressive Radical Center_ (http://apps.congregator.net/Blog/?e=1298&d=10/31/2007&s=The%20New%20Age%20Progressive%20Radical%20Center) 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. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
