[lit-ideas] Re: Fukyama on Neoconservatism

Now we're in a poker game nobody wants to play. 
"I'll see your secret prisons, and raise you human
slave markets in Khartoum," you say. But everybody
folds.

Judy: Yes indeed. Because we're sick and tired of pointing out that the *point*
is that the US and UK are not living up to their ideals and alleged practices.

Survival is the point. To paraphrase Groucho, these are our ideals. If you don't like them, we have other ones.

Nobody lives up to their ideals except mythic figures. The higher the ideals the greater the difference between ideals and praxis. So infuriated are the idealists, they miss the idealistic Islamist sniper drawing a bead, and blowing their brains out.

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