Kuan Iras and the Culture Wars

i suspect this is why we spend so much time talking about overstatement and hysteria in the culture wars. Thereis two instincts that seem somewhat opposite, but lead to the same place. You're either despondent because you believe things are so hopeless and there's nothing you can do about it, or you're desperate because your thinkthey're going to overtake you. It just creates this kind of reactionary fervor, this froth,. The only thing that matters is your team winning, and you're willing to compromise everything. We need to suspend civil liberties after 9/11 as a parallel for fascius theory: A teaht who said 'we should suspend civilisation' isn't