[lbo-talk] Chip Berlet in the news

[Carl Remick]

>From: Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com>
>
>... any metaphysical speculations needed to be
>tempered by a dose of rationality.  Nietzche called it
>the "bicameral system of culture":
>
>"Illusions, partialities, and passions must provide
>the heat, while the deleterious and dangerous
>consequences of overheating must be averted with the
>aid of scientific knowledge" ("Human All Too Human")

Alexander Pope put it more succinctly in "Essay on Man":

"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
Reason the [compass] card, but passion is the gale."

Carl