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Victor Davis Hanson's Cassandra Cry
Aug. 5th, 2006 08:09 am♠
It is now a cliché to rant about the spread of postmodernism, cultural relativism, utopian pacifism, and moral equivalence among the affluent and leisured societies of the West. But we are seeing the insidious wages of such pernicious theories as they filter down from our media, universities, and government — and never more so than in the general public’s nonchalance since Hezbollah attacked Israel.
-- Victor Davis Hanson, "The Brink of Madness"
Mr. Hanson gives us a lengthy but passionate piece in which we hear something of a Cassandra decrying dangers to come but falling on deaf ears, drawing out the argument that there are fitting parallels between these years of budding Islamist terrorism and the years of budding fascism of the 1930s.
I like this shot:
And finally examine here at home reaction to Hezbollah — which has butchered Americans in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia — from a prominent Democratic Congressman, John Dingell: “I don’t take sides for or against Hezbollah.” And isn’t that the point, after all: the amoral Westerner cannot exercise moral judgment because he no longer has any?
( Hanson column )
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It is now a cliché to rant about the spread of postmodernism, cultural relativism, utopian pacifism, and moral equivalence among the affluent and leisured societies of the West. But we are seeing the insidious wages of such pernicious theories as they filter down from our media, universities, and government — and never more so than in the general public’s nonchalance since Hezbollah attacked Israel.
-- Victor Davis Hanson, "The Brink of Madness"
Mr. Hanson gives us a lengthy but passionate piece in which we hear something of a Cassandra decrying dangers to come but falling on deaf ears, drawing out the argument that there are fitting parallels between these years of budding Islamist terrorism and the years of budding fascism of the 1930s.
I like this shot:
And finally examine here at home reaction to Hezbollah — which has butchered Americans in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia — from a prominent Democratic Congressman, John Dingell: “I don’t take sides for or against Hezbollah.” And isn’t that the point, after all: the amoral Westerner cannot exercise moral judgment because he no longer has any?
( Hanson column )
