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Chouxxx |
08/02/04 |
Until 1979, the average resident of the Western world had cause to believe that the rational pursuit of kowledge was the shared vocation of all humanity. At the time, the strict market economics of Britain's Margaret Thatcher and the fundamentalist Islam of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini did not appear to have much in common. But, their almost simultaeouos ascents were harbingers of a revolutionary retreat from the Enlightenment faith in reason. Ever since, the citizenry of the civilized world has been frightenly susceptible to all mnner of quack spiritualism, moral obsfucation, economic snake oil, and emotional pandering.*
Not my vision for the future of America or the world. And, I'm a warrior!!
Comments or not...
Choux
*New Book, "Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power brokers, Media Morons and the Erosion of Common Sense" by Francis Wheen. OH, Francis is a man for all you deluded right wing nazis! lol |
Clarification/Follow-up by SanchoPanza on 08/03/04 2:24 am:
It is widely regarded that Thatcher's Britain sold its soul for a portfolio of privatized public assets.
All manner of quack spiritualism, moral obsfucation, economic snake oil, and emotional pandering, would have been in the Sixties during Wilson's Nanny State and in the early nineties when new age chemicals provided the antidote to John Major and his robber baron administration.
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 08/03/04 5:18 am:
supposedly his British version of the book 'How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World'is better written andd documented than the American companion addition. People compare his writings to those of Michael Moore. Enough said.
Clarification/Follow-up by ETWolverine on 08/03/04 12:38 pm:
>>>all you deluded right wing nazis! lol <<<
You mean as opposed to you left-wing commies?
:)
Elliot
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