The Coming "Good Society" of Obama in Amerika

"Civil society, as a phrase, has been receiving attention lately as well: Yuval Levin, in the recent issue of National Review, for example, has an article[ii] outlining the Obama administration’s contribution to the hollowing out thereof. The president’s vision, as Levin describes it, is of a society where the longest-term exclusive relationship that exists is that between the individual and the government...."
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Also,
"I am not the stuff of which reformers are made; rather than indulge in that variety of meddlesomeness I would sweep a crossing. Nine-tenths of the reformers of humanity have been mischief-makers or humbugs. I have no desire to be added to the list. A man who reforms himself has contributed his full share towards the reformation of his neighbour...."
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So, "Progress" = The Destruction of Civil Society, the Past, and our Souls. When that word is used, this is what it means. It COULD mean an improvement on all these, but then, it would have to be creative and build, rather than merely being dialectical and destructive.

Who Made Who?

This sounds like Darth Vader called to talk to Lando Calarissian.

State of the Cosmos

As Obama gave his address to the "last, best hope of earth", Egypt is the next fall guy. No one is asking who will replace him, whether or not we were instrumental in keeping him there for so long, or who might have been there in his place. Nor (indeed) is anyone keen to discuss our role in bringing about his fall (the Obama regime is calling for him to be "responsive" to the people), nor to remark that such an "authoritarian strong man" is so easily laid low by the power of the peaceful people. Was Mubarak a despot or strong man at all, that a word from our White House can send him reeling and usher in God only knows what? Speak not the forbidden word "authority"; in a world dominated by chaos perceived only as goodness by those who are bitter for the utopia they can never have and settle (like hogs) for the next best thing (a world in which the illusion of utopia is fed to lust in a world sorcery state), those upon the side of peace & order will have to "ride the tiger". For surely, in the land of fools, the mad one is king.