http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/its-about-the-power-stupid/ Just another soapbox surfer Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:02:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/its-about-the-power-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-12215 What’s Power Got To Do With It? « Matt Zeitlin: Impetuous Young Whippersnapper Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:40:27 +0000 http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/its-about-the-power-stupid/#comment-12215 [...] Posted by Matt Zeitlin on August 19th, 2007 Quixote, not the gracious writer of After Corbu, blasts Mark Lilla’s NYTimes Magazine piece for getting the roots of religious violence and oppression wrong - it isn’t about scripture, it’s about power. Balderdash. I have never in my travels met a person who’s really exercised about intellectual chasms. The things people are willing to throw bombs about is having control over their own lives and having resources. Does anyone honestly think that the US would have thrown bombs at Iraq if it had all the oil it needed and wasn’t worried about being forced to “live like Europeans”? Even Lilla couldn’t be thinking that Cheney sat there and said, “I can’t stand this intellectual chasm. Maybe a bomb or two will fill it in.”The problem is not chasms or principles or religions. The problem is the abuse of power. That’s what we have to be vigilant about. [...] [...] Posted by Matt Zeitlin on August 19th, 2007 Quixote, not the gracious writer of After Corbu, blasts Mark Lilla’s NYTimes Magazine piece for getting the roots of religious violence and oppression wrong – it isn’t about scripture, it’s about power. Balderdash. I have never in my travels met a person who’s really exercised about intellectual chasms. The things people are willing to throw bombs about is having control over their own lives and having resources. Does anyone honestly think that the US would have thrown bombs at Iraq if it had all the oil it needed and wasn’t worried about being forced to “live like Europeans”? Even Lilla couldn’t be thinking that Cheney sat there and said, “I can’t stand this intellectual chasm. Maybe a bomb or two will fill it in.”The problem is not chasms or principles or religions. The problem is the abuse of power. That’s what we have to be vigilant about. [...]

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