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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
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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
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only decide their personal fate and that of their
nation, but they decide the fate of three billion
other human beings as well and then realizes
again that the President of the United States,
whoever he may be, has more power and moral
responsibility today than the Greeks gave to
their gods? Then, my children, it is not to be
wondered at when there are fleeting moments
of despair ard depression on the part of
Western thinkers. Or that there are dreams of
revolution.
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. We stand
within a hairsbreadth of the Paradise we have
written of in our holy books down the ages. And
we stand equally close to suicide, or, at best, a
society of ants.
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