[Dean's World] Celia Farber: Liberals Who Fear Annhilation More Than We Fear Bush/Cheney

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Posted by Celia Farber:
Liberals Who Fear Annhilation More Than We Fear Bush/Cheney
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1158689875.shtml


   Greetings all; Nice to be back. The censor monkeys that patrol my mind
   have kept me from saying what I think I am thinking on certain
   subjects that Others seem to Know All About, such as the post 9/11
   shockathon now perhaps rightly being called the Brink of WW3.

   This self-censorship despite the fact that I researched and ghost
   co-wrote a book on the subject in 2001/2002. During this research, I
   read, for instance, the fantastically frightening text called the
   Jihad Manual. This is a document said to be a blueprint for the final
   destruction of Western Civilization, down to the last ash of the last
   page of Plato's Reblublic, and said to be from Moussaui's laptop.

   Somehow, I lost all nerve. I learned to just shut up, and kept saying
   I didn't know what to think or say. I even started saying that maybe
   women don't know how to think or write about War. (I should have said
   I don't know how to.)

   But today I broke my internalized silence, and wrote the following
   email to a few friends and colleagues, upon reading Sam Harris' piece
   on Head In The Sand Liberals:

   I am not yet certain where this piece was published but I was struck
   by the clarity and proportionality of it. Perfection. I can't see any
   earthly way for this not to be correct. In other words it is correct.
   Unfortunately. As many of us classicists have been arguing ad nauseam,
   it is very dangerous to depart from evidence based science, and now
   the craze against reality/evidence has come full circle. We are into
   the age of post-cognition, where on the one hand that which is NOT
   THERE is feverishly conjured, (the sex/death retro viral epidemic for
   example) (Kierk-gd's 'monstrous nothing') whereas what IS there
   (planes exploding into towers, mass death, be-headings, clearly
   signaled grand finale Jihad against West Civ) is spectacularly denied.
   There are days when I wonder whether it might work to just read things
   upside down, turn the computers, newspapers and TV sets upside down.
   Everything is inverted. All responses reduced to the psychosis of the
   Bad Daddy, as this piece illuminates.

   History has shown that there is no way to pry people from their
   convictions with facts, even when said facts occur in real time, and
   are documented through the best technologies of the Information Age,
   the paradox of which seems to be that we don't eat information.

   I suppose the only thing left is to be kind to one another.

   With vertigo and trembling,

   Celia