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Edited on Fri Jun-24-05 07:44 PM by PATRICK
it really isn't honest. The words become meaningless in an extreme situation. I don't subscribe exactly to the righteousness of left /right ideology or persuasions but to the empirical humility of the human condition.
Progress is a fact of existence. Freedom, cooperation, democracy, compassion is necessary for survival in the modern world- not a glorious hard won luxury and fruit of our labors. It is resisting our stupidity, romanticism, selfishness and worst natures that is necessary, but no one rallies around trying not to be stupid.
Yet that will not cripple the Radical Moderate into apathy, cynicism or appeasement. There has to be a mighty struggle to match material progress with our own inner spirit. I don't need just a flip side of capitalism. I want people to deal with what we got which is nuts and survive until sanity flourishes and people change.
Which will happen. More of the same will get us dead. DNA manipulation will remake evolution itself. Utopian or fascist entropy will die. Moderation is not the lukewarm spew Jesus talked about. It is hot for nurturing what we have as we herd into the future. A future that we will need all of our luck, hard work and grace to simply reach.
But it is a nutty term. A school survey plainly put me in the ultra liberal category, mainly through learned distrust of human authority. I guess a radical moderate is someone who might have liked being a conservative if the real universe was like that(maybe Paradise is, but I doubt it). Or someone who realizes the ideal cannot be yet and a radical left is a sad pretense as opposed to a hateful one on the Right. A true radical moderate would be in a crossfire in no man's land. So far most of the left is not shooting that viciously so by default moderates must move to the left or die. Hardly a radical outlook is it? And to tell the truth, the only radical people denying reality are the truly exposed crazies and gluttonous mammonites of the RW. Way past the bizarre, sustained by enslaving the most powerful and richest nation in world history. Big deal. They are still just doomed parasites by choice and always will be until they get human again.
I suppose I could make bullet points. But as I said, the crossfire would whittle us down to being moderate progressives waving a white flag.
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