[MD] conspiracy theories

[ian glendinning]

Gav, somewhere at the start of this thread you said

"So let us just say that sometimes the official truth is a lie."

I say the "official truth" is always a lie, as in, not the truth.
The conspiracy though is not (often) in official premeditated plots,
but in the conspiracy of the western psyche to misunderstand what
reality is and to set misguided social demands on how that "simple
SOMist truth" must be communicated and rationalised.

BTW, love that essential reading list.
Ian

On 10/25/06, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> [dmb]
> 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.
>
> [Arlo]
> And speaking of great literature, another Minnesotan great, Sinclair Lewis
> (who said "when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and
> carrying a cross") wrote "It Can't Happen Here". Wikipedia describes it as
> such.
>
> "It Can't Happen Here is a satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis
> published in 1935. It features newspaperman Doremus Jessup struggling
> against the fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who was
> modeled either on the flamboyantly dictatorial Huey Long of Louisiana, or
> on Gerald B. Winrod, the Kansas evangelist whose far-right views earned him
> the nickname "The Jayhawk Nazi". It serves as a warning that political
> movements akin to Nazism can come to power in countries such as the United
> States when people blindly support their leaders." (Wikipedia)
>
> moq_discuss mailing list
> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.
> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org
> Archives:
> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/
> http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
>