[MD] conspiracy theories

[david buchanan]

Ham said:
>With everything from the Bible to the U.S. Constitution open to such 
>cynicism
>and questioning...

Arlo replied:
>Should the US Constitution and the Bible exempt from questioning? Should we
>blindly obey? I am reminded of the words from "The Power of Nightmares"...
>
>"Strauss believed that the liberal idea of individual freedom led people to
>question everything—all values, all moral truths. Instead, people were 
>led by
>their own selfish desires. And this threatened to tear apart the shared 
>values
>which held society together. But there was a way to stop this, Strauss
>believed. It was for politicians to assert powerful and inspiring myths 
>that
>everyone could believe in. They might not be true, but they were necessary
>illusions. ONE OF THESE WAS RELIGION; THE OTHER WAS THE MYTH OF THE NATION. 
>And
>in America, that was the idea that the country had a unique destiny to 
>battle
>the forces of evil throughout the world."

dmb says:
Martha Nussbaum, also of the University of Chicago, says that the 
willingness to question the values and beliefs of one's own culture to is 
the very definition of philosophy. Its a principle, she says, that should 
guide all Universities. In terms of the MOQ, this is the expressed in terms 
of putting intellectual values over social values and it is considered 
immoral to assert social level values over intellectual values. That's why 
we find it so easy to dislike the fascists among us.

God bless America.

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