From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 29 2005 - 17:34:52 BST
Of the current two-party dichotomy, I'd offer a different analysis. While I'd
agree that the "Democrats" are struggling to hold onto gains made during the
last decade or so, and keeping in mind that the minority party is always placed
in a defensive position (ie, "static"), I'd say instead the movement of the
"Republicans" is not "progressive" but "retrogressive".
That they are the ones offering movement, I will concede (albeit a simplistic
and dependant claim), but it is certainly not "forward", and it is certainly
not "intellectual". It is a retrogressive charge to the previous static social
of the Victorians.
Pirsig sums this up saying: The end of the twentieth century in America seems to
be an intellectual, social and economic rust-belt, a whole society that has
given up on Dynamic improvement and is slowly trying to slip back to
Victorianism, the last static ratchet-latch.
Arlo
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