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UtopianRanger -> RE: List of countries that put America to shame (5/4/2006 4:09:58 AM)
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Questioning your government is not only the right thing to do, it is the MOST patriotic thing to do. In fact, questioning authority is precisely the job of each and every citizen. This whole idea of "love it or leave it" was clearly dreamed up by people that actually hate the idea of a vigorous republic.
Chaingang....
I know these people are going to have my head for resurrecting this thread, but I wanted to post few excerpts from one of the foremost researchers of Leo Strauss and the whole ''Neocon mentality'' - I also might add that : Scooter Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle, William Bennet, John Ashcroft and Francis Fukuyama are all either protégés or followers in some way of the Straussian / Bloom philosophy { Known today as the modern day Neocon mentality - and, not to be confused with ''Old style conservatism''} -- Many haven't figured that out yet, the difference between the two that is!!!!
- R
''A review of Leo Strauss' career reveals why the label "Straussian" carries some very filthy implications. Although nominally a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany (he actually left for a better position abroad, on the warm recommendation of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt), Strauss was an unabashed proponent of the three most notorious shapers of the Nazi philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt. Recent biographies have revealed the depth of Heidegger's enthusiasm for Hitler and Nazism, while he served as the Chancellor of Freiburg University, throughout the epoch of National Socialism, and was the leader of a Nietzschean revival. Carl Schmitt, the leading Nazi philosopher of law, was personally responsible, in 1934, for arranging a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship for Strauss, which enabled him to leave Germany, to study in England and France, before coming to the United States to teach at the New School for Social Research, and then, the University of Chicago. Strauss, in his long academic career, never abandoned his fealty to Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Schmitt.
The hallmark of Strauss' approach to philosophy was his hatred of the modern world, his belief in a totalitarian system, run by "philosophers," who rejected all universal principles of natural law, but saw their mission as absolute rulers, who lied and deceived a foolish "populist" mass, and used both religion and politics as a means of disseminating myths that kept the general population in clueless servitude. For Strauss and all of his protégés (Strauss personally had 100 Ph.D. students, and the "Straussians" now dominate most university political science and philosophy departments), the greatest object of hatred was the United States itself, which they viewed as nothing better than a weak, pathetic replay of "liberal democratic" Weimar Germany.''
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