Very interesting article by Roberts. I haven't read Brook yet, but MediaMatters is a preferred web site for me and I have heard him speak. Good to have someone who knows the right as well as he does as a former insider to come over to our side.
Frank's book on the _populist_ backlash today in Kansas, in many ways a microcosm of the populist anti-modernism everywhere today and is a great and "gathering threat" more than the WMD, which America wants to monopolize, along with Israel and the Brits but won't mess with Russia or China because they're too big and bullies don't pick on the big guys; they get someone else to do it for them. (I think Thomas Frank was also once a conservative?) But the cultural backlash against everything modern is not simply the purview of the Islamists, it is very much the preoccupation of Americans, both Christians and Jews - to turn back the clock of social progress and push forward a very selfish and harmful agenda of total free-market capitalism: Libertarianism with the capital L. It is the reality Fromm talked about in freedom "from" becoming freedom "to" exploit and to bully - to own assault weapons, to make everyone pray to their god, free to make the victim of rape carry that unwanted baby, who may just be also severely handicapped and free from providing any social services for her and the child and the freedom to unregulate corporations who they can hold bidding wars with states paying, which means us paying, to get their business, which they ultimately move out of the country anyway -- etc, etc. The problem emerging is anti-modernism and it is pervasive and it is to feared and opposed by progressive. Hank ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No More BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
