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Money can be printed, jobs formed, roads built--a people can work and buy its way out of these sorts of problems-if it has Spirit. But when a people loses its Spirit, and I mean this with Hegel's meaning, that people can not buy or work its way out of anything. The West is or was a rational construction, therefore, it strives to integrate two moments of the idea or there is no idea--if no idea, we then have common thought, one sided thought or the primitive (like this article I am commenting on or like our friends the terrorists......I mean those valiant freedom fighters, to use current sympathetic terminology). Lets remember that the Clinton's distrusted our intelligence community (derived from that beautiful time of the 1960s of free love and the sharing of mind expanding drugs,ie, taking advantage of each other for the worst of self serving) so they broke this community apart and when the Czechs warned us of 9:11 no one here could communicate the potential trouble. This was passed on to the next political hack. If we have to blame everything on the guy in the current office, lets go back to Clinton's lying, adultery, greed, etc. Although I refuse to blame Clinton completely for our current moral decline and our making fun of it--Clinton has to be the poster boy for our losing of Spirit; after all, the social is primarily an ethical relationship not a material one, and this loss of the ethical, this also was passed on to the next political hack. Clinton contributed to the destruction of Spirit--liberals (and most everyone else nowadays) will only see material things because the rational has been displaced; this is how the article I am commenting on contributes to our mediocrity--only in a very small way, it is not that powerful.
When Bush started chasing the Islamic terrorists--I mean that misunderstood group of (similar to our 1960s radicals)Islamic radicals--around, some Islamic theologians began the process of rationalizing Islam. This must be done to bring it into modernity with its atom bombs and germs, naturally, postmodernists and other gutless wonders that don't believe in the Western narrative any longer want to surrender once again to Ayn Rand's concept of the primitive--or a modern version of it (this would make a great Master's thesis if you could get it by a professor in today's ideological class room!). When 9:11 occurred Laden is said to have said, "the Americans will do nothing." Carter was a puss, Reagan ran from Lebanon, Clinton did nothing but run from Somalia and blow up sand in some crap hole when the twin towers was previously bombed (busy experimenting with cigars--I know, it was not my business or anyone else; the French said so). Now, because of the evil terrorist Bush (not all the credit but we are blaming the guy in office for everything), Islam may be rationalized in the future. When Keillor and his beautiful piss are long forgotten, Bush just may be remembered for at least one good thing.
