This is also and indictment of President Bush who said that he looked into Putin’s eyes and he saw “a good man.”

Here is part of the quote:

“I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue.

“I was able to get a sense of his soul.

Bush too is a product of our putrid and self destructive mass culture.

http://libertypeaklodge.typepad.com/headquarters/2008/03/good-friday-ref.html

Thank you.

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I don’t, nevertheless, have the temerity to call the end of Western Civilization as something soon to come. Nor do I have the temerity, or even foolishness, to call for immediate action, since this will only create room for more disasters. One must assess the current world situation with great care and deal, very smartly, with it. Yet, there’s no one who can do it, no group, no nation. Whatever it is on the track to happen, will happen.

I wholly agree with Mr. Kimball and Mr. Nyquist. And though I may fit the description of the mass man a little to tightly, in fact, I reject the facile shelter of egalitarian brotherhood.

Certainly the reason I come to sites like these and read essays beyond my education stems not from a pretension of thinking myself a peer, but to intellectually arm myself for the future. I require elites not sneer at them. Most people working in the traditional professions including; Medical, law, the military and education are or should be such elites, why else should I bother with them? My very life depends on elites!

Should I be disturbed at the coarseness and ghettoizing of speech, dress and style I witness from my peers? Or is Reverend Wright’s anti-American rants becoming merely common currency in the ever evolving dialectic?

“… Paul Johnson, the British historian, who wrote: “Anti-Americanism is the prevailing disease of intellectuals today.” What he should have said, but failed to clarify, was that today’s “intellectuals” are frauds; they are mass men,”

One only needs to read how Journalism has fallen to the depths of propaganda to affirm his insight.

The Internet may be a sort of Pandora’s box stoking rather than merely providing the tender for a new totalitarianism, is it 1938 again? Ironically I happen to live in a craftsman house built in 1938. Though I surround myself with philosophy, literature and art I still find myself (from habit) harnessed to stupidity of the television.

This I agree: My generation is the mass man, mass-produced and mass processed through an ever-expanding bureaucracy of conformity, masquerading as social justice and egalitarian.

But this is why I bother to read Mr. Kimball or Mr. Nyquist; in order to remake myself. To develop from a mass man to becoming un-dependent and eventually a freely independent thinking man, though time seemingly is fading into a dark future I am still (by a little) mass man but with a satellite feed.

“And I am dumb to tell a weather’s wind How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.”
Dylan Thomas