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Friday, December 12, 2008

How Can This Be?

Given the obvious idiocy of the ideas, the conspicuous venality of the champions of the ideas, and the smoking shit-stinking blood-stained pile of ruins we have to show for the application of the ideas, what gives reactionary ideas like the corporate-militarist constellation of "Movement Republicanism" their apparently ever-renewed propulsive force?

Because intelligence is just as apt to rationalize our sins and errors as to facilitate critical understanding and creative solutions to problems. Because it is easy to forget that we will survive into much of the long term even while we live in the short-term, and that our impact is planetary while our concerns are parochial. Because authorities abhor accountability and unaccountable authority is the monster of human history. And because the attitudes, customs, and institutions of patriarchy and of racism literally poison everything they touch.

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