Reply #9: here is the core definitions of what we're up against [View All]

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First: Strauss believed that a leader had to perpetually deceive the citizens he ruled.

Secondly: Those who lead must understand there is no morality, there is only the right of the superior to rule the inferior.

Thirdly: According to Drury, Religion “is the glue that holds society together.”<40> It is a handle by which the ruler can manipulate the masses. Any religion will do. Strauss is indifferent to them all.

Fourthly: “Secular society…is the worst possible thing,” because it leads to individualism, liberalism, and relativism, all of which encourage dissent and rebellion. As Drury sums it up: “You want a crowd that you can manipulate like putty.”<41>

Fifthly: “Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat; and following Machiavelli, he maintains that if no external threat exists, then one has to be manufactured.”<42>

Sixthly: “In Strauss’s view, the trouble with liberal society is that it dispenses with noble lies and pious frauds. It tries to found society on secular rational foundations.”



This explains why seemingly intelligent people believe the Bush cabal to be 'moral', and denotes the inherent dangers of instititutions like the IMF and WTO. The particular religious and/or spiritual beliefs of a group of people are relevant only in that it is a tool of control. This is not conservativism. It goes way beyond that. Like Christism (my word), the GOP was only a vehicle by which these freaks can spread their 'message'.

I find it tragically ironic that Strauss was a Jew who fled Germany, and then sits down to pen a manifesto nearly identical to the blueprint followed by Hitler.

I see where all this is going, and I fear the worst. These people have hijacked once 'respectable' doctrines and turned them into a dangerous entity that will destroy all those who oppose it.

Will things get better? I doubt it. The 35 million drones produced by this misuse of philosophical tennants follow their 'prince' with a fiercely blind allegance and will not stop until every last one of us who cherishes the intellectual and artistic capacities of the human spirit have been imprisoned or disposed of, IMO.