October 31
Just in time for the final push, here's a really good -- some might
say really scary -- analysis of what makes Dubya what he is. (Not that I think Kerry is all that wonderful, being a non-proliferation fundamentalist and being an East-coast NATO-type for whom the world begins and ends in Europe.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?pagewanted=all&position=
The scary part is how the "reality-based community", that is to say,
normal people, have been sidelined in the pursuit of this holy
madness.
There is the story of the early Christian hero, Tertullian (or is it
Origen -- I can't remember, Subhash Kak refers to this in his
wonderful work 'The Wishing Tree') who said regarding the
contradictions in the Bible: "I believe, because it is absurd".
Bush and co. remind me of this.
And also about what George Bernard Shaw said, I paraphrase: "The
problem with the world is that the clever are unsure and those who are
sure are stupid"
Rajeev
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