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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:07:46 PM
>>>Get your hands off our talk radio<<<
well...let's hope they leave it alone. Radical right talk radio may have helped sustain 6 1/2 years of the worst presidency in US history but it has also given voters a lesson in what radical conservatism feels like and it's been soundly rejected.
Enjoy the next year and a half of hard right rule. Almost guaranteed it'll never happen again in our lifetime.
A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
With excellent prose and gifted elegance Glenn explains how the Manichaean morality (derived from a third century B.C. popular religion founded by the Persian prophet Manes ), and President Bush's single-minded dependence on basic, binary, good vs. evil themes have rendered his presidency a failure.
"The ultimate paradox of Manichean morality, of the Manichean warrior, is that the most amoral, even morally monstrous, behavior is justified in its name. Those who begin with the premise that they are acting on behalf of pure Good are incapable of recognizing limits of any kind. How can those who are waging a Battle in defense of Good against Evil possibly err? How could limits of any kind on triumph in that Battle be justified? And most of all, how could Warriors for Good possibly themselves ever engage in Evil acts?
The Bush legacy is defined by the Manichean paradox."
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At a certain point in such a career, you kind of feel like your political framework is basically set, that though there is a lot of new information to learn the basic contours of how to understand our political system are in place. Not so. I read this book, and it helped me understand the danger of dogmatic thinking, the danger of writing off debate, and the importance of humility. It's not that, morally speaking, humility is a nice trait. What Greenwald shows is that the lack of said trait, and the absolute certitude of mind is at the core of how Bush has operated and how this man has destroyed himself, his Presidency, and how we as a country have ruined a great deal of our national fiber. It's an important idea that deserves wide discussion.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307354199?ie=UTF8&tag=dailykos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=17...
well...let's hope they leave it alone. Radical right talk radio may have helped sustain 6 1/2 years of the worst presidency in US history but it has also given voters a lesson in what radical conservatism feels like and it's been soundly rejected.
Enjoy the next year and a half of hard right rule. Almost guaranteed it'll never happen again in our lifetime.
A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
With excellent prose and gifted elegance Glenn explains how the Manichaean morality (derived from a third century B.C. popular religion founded by the Persian prophet Manes ), and President Bush's single-minded dependence on basic, binary, good vs. evil themes have rendered his presidency a failure.
"The ultimate paradox of Manichean morality, of the Manichean warrior, is that the most amoral, even morally monstrous, behavior is justified in its name. Those who begin with the premise that they are acting on behalf of pure Good are incapable of recognizing limits of any kind. How can those who are waging a Battle in defense of Good against Evil possibly err? How could limits of any kind on triumph in that Battle be justified? And most of all, how could Warriors for Good possibly themselves ever engage in Evil acts?
The Bush legacy is defined by the Manichean paradox."
_____________________________________________________________
At a certain point in such a career, you kind of feel like your political framework is basically set, that though there is a lot of new information to learn the basic contours of how to understand our political system are in place. Not so. I read this book, and it helped me understand the danger of dogmatic thinking, the danger of writing off debate, and the importance of humility. It's not that, morally speaking, humility is a nice trait. What Greenwald shows is that the lack of said trait, and the absolute certitude of mind is at the core of how Bush has operated and how this man has destroyed himself, his Presidency, and how we as a country have ruined a great deal of our national fiber. It's an important idea that deserves wide discussion.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307354199?ie=UTF8&tag=dailykos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=17...
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