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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (60079)9/14/1999 12:14:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
The problem is that we have become so reflexive about being anti- censorship that it is difficult to entertain the case for it. I agree with John Stuart Mill in embracing the marketplace of ideas, but it is just as well that we admit that what we are doing is risky, and that bad ideas may very well be attractive, and engender harmful consequences. Even the rallying cry of "Truth" is a bit callow. Nietzsche very properly raises the question of how much truth we can bear, and whether or not fictions have served the cause of life and of civilization. Suppose that the truth were unbearable, and to learn it would cause us all to lose heart? Suppose that a precondition of health and creativity is a kind of dumb confidence that what one is doing matters in the long run? And further, suppose that that confidence is hard to maintain, and cannot stand much attack? Then it may be that Enlightenment was just a brief, giddy interlude between the Ancien Regime and the Abyss......
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