fighting ideology

Paul Henry Rosenberg rad at gte.net
Sat Apr 10 07:59:58 PDT 1999


Doug Henwood wrote:


> In his New York Press column this week, Chris Caldwell quotes "French art
> scholar and political scientist Alain Besancon," in his book Le Malheur Du
> Siecle, as saying:
>
> "In battling ideological regimes, the main thing is to refuse - without
> discussion - the description of reality that it proposes. You have to stick
> to this line until the bitter end. Once you put your finger into the
> gearworks and grant that their description has an 'element of
> truth'...you're lost, and your political will can only respond with a
> falsified intelligence.... In ideology, the 'element of truth' that
> provides the seductive power is precisely the place of falsification - and
> the biggest falsehood of all."

Boy, talk about ego-insecurity!

This sounds like a perfect description of the libertarian or fundamentalist Christian ideology.

Why in the WORLD would anyone want to descend to their level????

-- Paul Rosenberg Reason and Democracy rad at gte.net

"Let's put the information BACK into the information age!"



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