A memorable verse.
An admirable aspiration.
Since 9/11, when "The National Lunacy" began, a question that begs asking (but is foreboding to formulate) is whether "conservative" Americans (a group particularly "shellshocked" by the events of that horrifying day), simultaneously lost their ability to reason. http://paxonbothhouses.
They seem to have gone mad.
The rush-to-war in Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, supports the view.
In recent years - cheered on by The Mad Man himself - "conservatives" eschew the factual foundation on which Reason depends to advance The Good.
Yes, there is fake news... and its epicenter is The White House.
There is also the horror of blind faith.
Pope Francis On Fundamentalism: The Horror Of Turning God Into Ideological Pretext
Devout Christian Blaise Pascal: Unparalleled Evil Arises From Religious Conviction
Many "conservative" "Christians" yearn for Jesus' "Second Coming," which, according to The Received Idiocy, requires prior devastation by Armageddon.
Like Hare Krishnas confident they'll be yanked into heaven by their pony tails, "conservative" "Chstians" believe they and their loved ones will be spared flesh sloughing off bone, eyes boiling in their sockets, and the other horrors of a belligerent End Time.
The Good Christians, you see, are "The Saved!"
"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all good children go to heaven."
And these pueri aeterni are unflinchingly convinced that God - with the presumed precision of "surgical bombing" - will only direct His apocalyptic horrors at "The Damnable Others."
Would America Care If Trump Nuked North Korea? Stanford-Dartmouth Research Says No
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The Christian Doctrine Of Damnation... And The Destruction Of Christ-Spirit
The Christian Doctrine Of Damnation... And The Destruction Of Christ-Spirit
Nothing would be better than reasoning together.
But Reason is only possible when reasonable people act on its principles.
Sound logic.
Intellectual rigor.
And - in the modern world - peer-reviewed literature.
The addlepates have no idea what these phrases mean, much less the ability (or the desire) to develop their views accordingly.
Like Trump, they live by bluster and bullying, habits learned on middle school playgrounds.
Their views are grounded in soundbites swallowed whole in adolescence.
"Confirmation bias" and "siloed tribalism" are not even suspect.
They are sacraments.
Republican presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, the living American who has served longest as a White House senior staff adviser, observed: “The Republican philosophy might be summarized thus: To hell with principle; what matters is power, and that we have it, and that they do not.”
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Sound logic.
Intellectual rigor.
And - in the modern world - peer-reviewed literature.
The addlepates have no idea what these phrases mean, much less the ability (or the desire) to develop their views accordingly.
"Conservatives' Trust In Science Hits All Time Low," US News & World Report
Like Trump, they live by bluster and bullying, habits learned on middle school playgrounds.
Their views are grounded in soundbites swallowed whole in adolescence.
"Confirmation bias" and "siloed tribalism" are not even suspect.
They are sacraments.
Re-Vision: "Was José Ortega y Gasset The Most Important Philosopher Of The 20th Century?"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/re-vision-was-jose-ortega-y-gasset-most.htmlRepublican presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, the living American who has served longest as a White House senior staff adviser, observed: “The Republican philosophy might be summarized thus: To hell with principle; what matters is power, and that we have it, and that they do not.”
“Where the Right Went Wrong"
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