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Entry: Will The Unnecessary War Damage the Antiwar Right? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/will_the_unnecessary_war_damage_the_antiwar_right#29666 Post contents: Ditto Joe. I consider what I repeat to be the 'repeatables'. We are conceptual creatures & as such we pause at the conceptual level especially prior to important activity. At that pause or conceptual level, we are filled-in mostly by our culture via our upbringing & society. So politics is of course also personal. My upbringing (& society, if only nominally today in that society) values for example in journalism and so in the ongoing social narrative as well, both truth (not verisimilitude) and freedom of speech (not sly censorhsip.) HOWEVER other people's upbringing and culture in the same society, values the narrative and/or 'their narrative' as being sacred & thus above and peremptory of truth, & the freedom-that-occurs in life within freedom's obviously rather narrow parameters of possibility. Not that we need to elevate truth or freedom as values, they rather are natural (perhaps *also super-natural depending on your faith) givens or realities. What to do when a culture in one society, and so their instructions or guidance at the conceptual level closer than conscious thought per se and their narrative. Differs profoundly from the surrounding or larger culture & society which places the natural realities of both truth & freedom higher than the other culture's sacred narrative which values themselves as first and foremost! If that minority culture is also culturally driven to control the exoteric narrative etc. in that larger society via the media in behalf of supporting its own differing and esoteric cultural narrative and its own paradigm i.e. themselves. What is the larger society to do without seeming to abuse or insult those who are in fact covertly with their machinations profoundly hurting (i.e. ATTACKING in their own way) the larger society? If you're being covertly eaten alive slowly is one allowed to protest even if 'offends' the dining culture? Sure we need this important question and questions like it posed by a sexy spoke person, but who? And will be they be eaten? Sent at: 2009 01 08