"All that is necessary for evil to prevail, is for good men to call it something else."
Shivani gets to the heart of the matter all right:
The way to understand Bush's presidency is to look at him as a forceful dictator bent on doing as much harm as quickly as possible, not as a bumbling right-wing fool who chanced on the presidency due to mishaps in Florida.
But that's not all there is. G.W. Bush is doing what he thinks is his part in bringing forth The Rapture.
Wallerstein explains what we're dealing with here:
If we were certain of the future, there could be no moral compulsion to do anything. We would be free to indulge every passion and pursue every egoism, since all actions fall within the certainty that has been ordained. If everything is uncertain, then the future is open to creativity, not merely human creativity but the creativity of all nature. It is open to possibility, and therefore to a better world. But we can only get there as we are ready to invest our moral energies in its achievement, and as we are ready to struggle with those who, under whatever guise and for whatever excuse, prefer an inegalitarian, undemocratic world.
In that sense Wallerstein has it backwards in this commentary. Dubya is not Osama's agent. Osama is Dubya's. Has been all the time.
Hoping McGowan wraps it up in his next newletter. It's late. He must be on vacation.
The way to understand Bush's presidency is to look at him as a forceful dictator bent on doing as much harm as quickly as possible, not as a bumbling right-wing fool who chanced on the presidency due to mishaps in Florida.
But that's not all there is. G.W. Bush is doing what he thinks is his part in bringing forth The Rapture.
Wallerstein explains what we're dealing with here:
If we were certain of the future, there could be no moral compulsion to do anything. We would be free to indulge every passion and pursue every egoism, since all actions fall within the certainty that has been ordained. If everything is uncertain, then the future is open to creativity, not merely human creativity but the creativity of all nature. It is open to possibility, and therefore to a better world. But we can only get there as we are ready to invest our moral energies in its achievement, and as we are ready to struggle with those who, under whatever guise and for whatever excuse, prefer an inegalitarian, undemocratic world.
In that sense Wallerstein has it backwards in this commentary. Dubya is not Osama's agent. Osama is Dubya's. Has been all the time.
Hoping McGowan wraps it up in his next newletter. It's late. He must be on vacation.