[Dialogue] AlterNet: Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives SayWhen They Think We Aren't Listening

[Hampton, Stuart]

George Orwell had a pretty good handle on the dynamics at play here in
his description of H.G. Wells on the eve of WWII.

"The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions -
racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which
liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which
they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost
all power of action ...

He was, and still is, quite incapable of understanding that nationalism,
religious bigotry and feudal loyalty are far more powerful forces than
what he himself would describe as sanity. Creatures out of the Dark Ages
have come marching into the present, and if they are ghosts they are at
any rate ghosts which need a strong magic to lay them."

The "Creatures out of the Dark Ages" that have marched into the present
are not just the Islamic Jihadists, they are the fearful little old
ladies (of both sexes) on sea cruises, too. 

Cheers, 

Stuart


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Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't
Listening
http://www.alternet.org/story/57001

The Iraq war has been an amazing success, global warming is just a myth
and Guantanamo Bay is practically a holiday camp. The annual cruise
organized by the 'National Review,' mouthpiece of right-wing America, is
a parallel universe populated by straight-talking, gun-toting,
God-fearing Republicans.
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