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Mar. 12, 2010 Why do people spend so much time trying to justify their lives? So many are addicted to their communication devices, its getting so that they now walk side by side while talking to one another over the net. It wouldn’t be too bad if the added communication added to the sum of human knowledge which is very unlikely. Just listen in on the conversation. In the main it’s about who went where and what music is the person listening to or what the latest movie was about and who was in it. We live in an aesthete society, this for uninitiated is one not based upon the philosophy of the epicurean where at least there is decision to concentrate upon the worlds physical pleasures and forget the rest, but based upon purely feeling good and looking good. This can be dangerous as we now have an unthinking proletarian who can be manipulated by any power block that feeds it. Take one of the New York Times foreign correspondence's Chris Hedges. In addition to writing for the Times he has written a number of books, usually debunking what are called the neo cons which I suppose means new conservatives (why not neo libs, present day liberal positions on gay rights and the environment etc don’t seem to have much to do with classic liberalism, more of an encroachment upon rights if you ask me.) The invasion of Iraq was at first welcomed by all as a good thing as 9/11 was fresh in the memory; and, lo and behold no weapons of mass destruction giving the liberals just the thing they needed to pull down Bush's poll numbers; which were through the roof. Two years ago Chris Hedges was dancing with joy as the war in Iraq seemed to go nowhere in particular. He went into ecstatic convulsions as he pontificated upon the ignorance of those with a military view point and education giving rein to his seminary studies theories as to how the affairs of the region should be conducted. We heard about how the majority of Muslims abhorred the suicide bombings and it was the humiliation bought about the stationing of US forces in their country which triggered these events. (I have had US forces stationed in my country in greater number than any where in the middle east and never had the slightest urge to blow my self up at the guardroom entrance gate to any US base). There has been a steady stream of this kind of talk in the popular media put out not really because they necessarily believe it, more to give their listeners, viewers and readers a feeling of superiority. In an aesthete society where a musical score is put together in a couple days and a movie in a year one can to feel good about ones self with little effort. No need to pour through those musty old history books, no need to study re-enactments of past battles. No need to war-game the present situation, all you have to do is listen to one whose studies have snaked in and out of the divine word of god. Hedges seems to be doing this as he critics the likes of Tony Hitchens and company for not studying the Koran or middle eastern history, and of course Christianity and then himself goes on to castigate the military without giving any reference to a single military source of study.
There is a steady stream of populist analysis which those who would subvert the stream of military action in order to prove their own importance use. They mold their views on popular culture in order to give them the appearance of legitimacy. Isn't about time churchmen went back to what they do best, study divine scriptures and leave the running of the world to those who are trained to do so. Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, give unto the Lord that which is the Lord's.
Read Mike Haran's essays on history at
http://www.geocities.com/manzikertca/
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