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four hundr< especially the Communist world, and absolutist in condemning itself. To be precise, Paul Craig Roberts maintains: "The West, however, does not really believe in the functional and relativistic concepts of morality that it espouses; therefore, a duality emerges: the West suspends the relativistic logic with regard to itself and denounces itself from the standpoint of an absolutist morality, yet it applies that relativism to '"her societies, thereby protecting them frui the West's condemnation. "The West tacitly maintains a belief in morality as an independent standard, but the inability of formal philosophy to provide a basis for it has precluded its expression. The West does not explicitly acknowledge this belief because that would be 'naive and unscientific'. As a consequence, the West does not acknowledge its moral superiority. "The West seizes on any fact or fantasy as evidence of its moral failure; Its enemies construe facts and invent fantasies an evidence of their moral superiority. If the West cannot explicitly establish a moral philosophy that embodies its tacit beliefs, it has a dim future. As a result of the relativists' belief that it is beautiful "Right". Which "duty" is pursued thing, isn't it? On influence by such methods as innuendo, many factors. Of course I'm word choice and slanting. (get it? the knowledgable, experie diagonal line-slanting?) As has men of the world editors o been said (subrosa, of course), Gamecock are quite able "We emphasize what we think eminently qualified to judge. important (ie, "Right"), and we am equally sure they coulc ignore what we think unimportant possibly be so base as to (ie, "wrong"). What You See Is personal preference or prej What You Get. influence their determinati Thus we have, in the style of this what is good and what is fair-minded and objective jour- quality work. nalism.... McGovern "...smiling his It does seem as though ther prairie preacher smile..." that continuing dearth of high qt makes him look like "...the only work around judging by th decent man in the Senate." --while credible drivel which Cornelia Wallace "...smiled her Gamecock prints. That I an big practiced (inference phony) alone in my appraisal of th smile..." matched merit of the Gamec The Wallace's are referred to as evidenced by the still b "George" and "Cornelia" (or 01' unread stacks of the paper George) while McGovern isreualfilndorlwth "McGovern" or "Senator" 7' eyln is fcus (Roughly the difference betweencapsnwaeraeep "Mr." and "Boy") McGoverntob prtyshmri addresses "...for a few precious cnetdadoecnie hours..." hostile, boorish, un-knweg buporyif neighborly legislators (lets hear itanim tue"W ser)b for the sympathy vote folks...),Gaeoksmstsufrr inept guards, and last but not leastbacseoarstdevlp the adoring masses. Ral huh etIru On the other hand Mrs. Wallace waho l h elta,h talks to "...her kind of people..."ateddabgim Unv (ya know all them Hicks, necks, yuaeudra nel grits and other ignorant, ignoble, olgto ob iea n ya should pardon the expression, frMGvr,Iantko Sou-therners) and deliversGereM.Ijscantbi "George's" no longer "blatant" ratoay loia i but implicitly racist (see how he tikn htsy Sehv hypocritically tries to hide it, but w r.W aeec a we know better...) "...Kill or be tm.OeatcefrS Killed..." attitudes.Mcoenadnertlea The "...tired, ex-beauty Wlae..wa oed queen..." (sag, hag, bag, sneerwat"Tt,Cilnisd sneer. Word choice kiddies, word tik choice.) delivers from her Ihoetiisnnowycs husbands "..bag full of politicalasaprolatck n tricks..." in a "rolling mme fteGmcc monotone...", while robust, young I'suetywilalmk at heart G. McGovern introduces a.eepaymmeso his revolutionary (after all we'renesarpofsi,ifu all revolutionaries...Geo.thichcei'sjttath: Washington and all.) but notmotfthretfte "radical" proposals "...with both Ett.aevr uhvci ease and forcefulness..." Now thienrom tadtan that's an unbiased, high quality Anwy.Jo..adhr' pile of journalism,.re oorw orIub Quality... .ah yes. - well now at bdetera. best tat's aprettnrelatvetoor.ofO T A.rs I'm SCOTT DEF Editor .d fold ALICE POT Mgn. Edito unscientific to criticize other societies except by their own standards, Western classrooms emphasize the moral failures of the West. The lack of perspective that emerges is a weapon in the hands of our enemies." Craig Roberts has obviously not read much Bertrand Russell on East-West comparisons he does have valid points though, even if they are a little awry. Firstly, it is only disen franchised Western intellectuals who have any doubts these days about Western morality or feel a sense of moral failure. The rest of society, including the Great Vampires, try to function without them and only pauses to listen to them now and again when there is the inevitable emergency resulting from stupidity. This is especially true of America, who is the leader and harbinger of the worst and best in Western ethics. Secondly, perhaps Western intellectuals take such an extreme view of their society because they feel intuitively that, because of our real or imagined moral superiority or at least our more thorough approach to ethics than any other civilization including the Chinese, we have indeed failed morally, for the majority of the responsibility lies on our shoulders about what happens to the world at large--please remember that for a long time now we have been light years ahead of everyone else in d by technology and the art of war as well--with the sure single exception of the Japanese. The West is ned, Tyrrahannus Oedipus. We will make or break f the the planet within the next twenty years. and So, once again I ask, is it hard to understand And I the sense of dread and cynicism of the modern 1 not intellectual when he sees the average allow American politician and the average idiot who udice will vote in the next presidential election and in of realizes that when the Americans vote, they not poor is a We Have TI, iality e in- For the i not Sun-000 ick is 20 wund, thatB LL B( most tdNAVY BELL BOTTOM! 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Personally, I think the West has already found the answer to all morality and endeavor in John David Garcia's remarkably basic philosophical masterpiece, "The Moral Society; A Rational Alternative to Death," but I do not have the space here for even an in troduction. My point is, it is not a lack of perspective that drives me to pick up my stake and chase after the wicked vampires or question my Fuhrer and the intentions of our wonderful Fatherland, but the terrible burning responsibility to bring about a new way, a new orientation--the no orientation orientation of ever increasing Awareness--not because I, or America, or the West are the world's only moral agents--we aren't by a long shot--but we, the West, stand alone at this nexus in time to pick the apple of our discontent and harvest the new age of mankind. And she is there not from any genetically endowed moral superiority but by chance alone. We are historically and technologically ripe for Utopia. 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