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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (10738)10/22/1998 3:52:00 PM
From: jbe  Respond to of 67261
 
Johannes, I have no ditty...And if you are not interested in dialogue with people who may differ with you, why bother posting to this thread?

I also fail to see why Hostadter's definition of the "paranoid style" is not applicable to your view of the Culture War:

The distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see
conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a 'vast' or
'gigantic' conspiracy as the motive force in historical events...The paranoid
spokesman sees the fate of this conspiracy in apocalyptic terms--he traffics in the
birth
and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values.
He is always manning the barricades of civilization.


jbe