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Entry: The Protocols of the Elders of Bryan--The Discovery Institute Inherits the Wind Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_protocols_of_the_elders_of_bryan_the_discovery_institute_inherits_the_w#22053 Post contents: "The Protocols of the Elders Of Bryan"....nice touch....Pondering this debate over "Creationism vs. Evolution", a debate that effectively punishes both realms of thought, is consistent with pondering virtually any staged debate in this silly age. Beneficial discourse regarding faith and reason certainly occurs but the popularized form of this old debate is currently underwritten by the great edifice of popular culture so that it has become little more than a kind of Big Truck Rodeo if said rodeo was a cross between Butoh and Roller Derby. Elaborately staged conflict over the ridiculous is the rule of the day and so it is no wonder that the Marxist definition of Materialism remains the refuge of ultimate resort for our triumphal leisuretariet. Our current mangy dog Republican Party rants and raves about this debate to whip the party stalwarts into bare sentience and it begins to take on the hue and cast of a performance of Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen staged at Branson, Missouri with the neo cons starring as Mime the Nibelung Dwarf and the GOP Bigwigs as Siegfreid. Much hellfire and brimstone here, swordplay the primary occupation. What it all means is that the important stream of this debate..... man's habitual ability to let his technology exceed the capacity of his faith and reason to punishing effect....is buried under an avalanche of emotional cant. That the high ground of "intellectualism" would seem to be controlled by the Left alone is but one of many punishing results of this prevailing paradigm of Industrialized Thought and the Popular Consumer Hegemon. Watching Mr. Kristol and his peers alternately embrace and shun the rube element has been a kind of underlying theme of the destruction of Conservatism in this country. There is nothing they will not do or say to prove their septic ideology and it is no wonder now that after granting them the honor of controlling battlefield strategy, we see such a bloody mockery of our traditional principles. It really is just a five card monte ploy to retain both attention and confusion so they can spin more lies. The various Drunken Think Tanks that infest Washington are along for the ride and in this atmosphere of noisy emptiness, both Faith and Reason are left to whither and die. A discursive Republic demands better and until we have it, we'll be right roundhousing ourselves to the groin between firm left hooks to our own nose. Sent at: 2008 09 07