It's for that reason that I have real fears that the US is tipping into genuine fascism... that whole emphasis on conflict driving improvement, with the strong rising above the weak and reaping the rewards thereof while improving the ra- er, nation thing. Sends chills up my spine.
-- Steve can't understand how heavily the American right can fall for the fallacy of "social Darwinism" while so abhorring the real evolutionary theory that's actually useful.
It's nothing new. The US has had a strain of social-darwinism & muscular christianity that's very old and very deep, the sort of self-righteous "rugged individualism" that drives those particular sorts of nastiness is pretty much one of the founding principles of the US. The resurgence of active and open racism is clearly a reaction to Obama's election.
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-- Steve can't understand how heavily the American right can fall for the fallacy of "social Darwinism" while so abhorring the real evolutionary theory that's actually useful.
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