<<It may be a sickness from your perspective, but not from mine. The emergence of the liberal left's propaganda campaign of "political correctness" in the United States is a significant cause for alarm in my opinion. >>
I dont believe I wasnt making a speach in favor of "political correctness." What I was saying, is that resurgent nationalism and racism around the world is a form of madness, a form of irrationality of a most dangerous kind. It is hard to fight against an idea that is so easily rationalized by platitudes and appeal to emotion. One would think that people would have seen the principles behind such ideas given recent world history, but it is plain that we have not. I never took Arendt quite literally when she spoke of a sort of "fascist international," an undercurrent of pervasive and insidious philosophy knowingly or unknowingly espoused by those who many times are intellectually incapable of drawing out the logical conclusions to their arguments. Or worse, as you find amongst academia, a stubborn naive ignorance that there even *are* implications to one's ideas (especially regarding socialist ideas, "we'll get it right next time, that wasnt really socialism"). I rather am convinced now of Arendt's assertion. It's too bad you cant see how your own statements justify such *unneccessary* messes as the Balkans: <<Population control mechanisms such as war, famine, and disease are inevitable facts of life and are part of the global ecosystem.
>> When they are accepted as "natural" and not the product of bad ideas, totalitarianism will be the norm. |
