Did it not seem out of place after the 9/11 attacks when George Bush stated that these were carried out by cowards? Certainly, the mentality of these Jihadis is hard to reconcile with sanity. But using the appellation of cowardice to describe them seems rather bizarre. Perhaps it is more telling about the Weltanschauung of Mr. Bush. After all, in the
But then, isn't this all of a piece with the underlying unspoken tenets of geopolitics? If we live in a nightmarish world where things are to be hoarded in an unrelenting contest of each against all, then this worldview of Messers Bush and company almost seems like "realism." Yet it is the realism of a society driven to desperation and self immolation precisely because of such largely unspoken suppositions. It too is of a piece with a mentality that adopts a
However, this is thankfully not reality. It is merely a degenerate mistaken sort of mental geometry, which cannot but fail.
Eratosthenes first measured the circumference of the earth from the shadows cast by the sun. Today, humanity's fitness to survive will be measured by our ability to conquer that same thermonuclear fusion that casts those shadows. Thus, Prometheus will truly be unbound.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Bush's Waterloo
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