tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post2452454328121744177..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: A Malice That Dares Not Show Its FaceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-6639993253406792062010-04-10T20:17:28.697-04:002010-04-10T20:17:28.697-04:00Galileo: All of Obama's policies are nihilisti...Galileo: All of Obama's policies are nihilistic at root. The only way he can disguise his nihilism is with mockery (a la Toohey) or with a facade of scorn (which masks an absence of any serious values). Leaders like him set the precedent of spiritual self-renunciation; the paradox in Obama is that he has no self to renounce.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-88085002465568090292010-04-10T11:25:30.889-04:002010-04-10T11:25:30.889-04:00Obama's removal of the offending words "j...Obama's removal of the offending words "jihad", etc., in an attempt to blank out the underlying reality is very disturbing.<br /><br />It seems to me that a similar blank out is occurring with the recent arms control agreement with the Soviet Union -- sorry, Russia -- and the subsequent declaration of our new policy for using nuclear weapons, which is that we won't use them in most circumstances.<br /><br />The nuclear agreement and subsequent policy announcement were unexpected and seemed unprompted. There did not seem to be any urgent *reason* dictating that those moves had to happen *now*.<br /><br />However, after reading your post it seems that the nuclear moves, like the excision of words that would offend the Muslims, are actions with the same motivation and the same philosophical urgency.<br /><br />I can't help but see these steps as elements of a policy that is nihilistic at its root. They are a repudiation of America's proper founding values. Obama is morally surrendering America's virtues, and that must be a precursor to an actual physical surrender. (Such surrender de facto would be doing nothing as Iran develops a nuclear bomb, for example, which leads to its use by a terrorist organization.)<br /><br />Such a process of spiritual self-renunciation took several centuries before Ancient Rome collapsed. How slow, or fast, will this process take before America suffers the same fate?<br /><br />It is very disturbing.Galileo Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.com