FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Andrew Bacevich

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: August 26, 2010 11:37:40 AM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion Group Discussion Group <hidisc [at] 
> humanistinstitute.org>
> 
> 
> If humanism is ever going to affect humanity's future, many people will have 
> to experience radical changes -- and that will be painful, costly, and 
> arduous. 
> 
> Bacevich's new book may help (and TomDispatch posts a chapter). To whet your 
> appetite, here's a quote (the author, then in his 20+ years with the Army, is 
> experiencing the end of the Cold War):
> 
> Now, I started, however hesitantly, to suspect that orthodoxy might be a 
> sham. I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any 
> version of truth handed down from on high -- whether by presidents, prime 
> ministers, or archbishops -- is inherently suspect. The powerful, I came to 
> see, reveal truth only to the extent that it suits them.
> That liberation is now in full display.
>       
> http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175290/tomgram:_andrew_bacevich,_how_washington_rules__/
> The book, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, intends <rules> 
> to be taken both as a noun and a verb. And he presciently uses religious 
> metaphors in his descriptions.
> 
> Bob
>