Friday, April 13, 2012
Radical or Reactionary
I have used the adjective "reactionary" a lot in relation to Labor party politics of the last 10 years.
Kevin Rudd resists the idea and has said so directly and specifically recently. I think he is wrong and both parties would zoom out of wishy washy land if they found a bit of backbone on radical principles of environmental sustainability , for example.
The Greens, to their credit, have called for economy to go back to its roots to be radical .I am green but not a Green. Saying "we need to be radical" though is totally different from actually being radical . Almost like the very act of creating a party seems to kill it .Maybe small letter l "liberal" too?
Kevin Rudd ( former Australian Prime Minister) wisely chose a real radical to talk about before he got elected . This bloke was taken off the air 8 years before Hitler became Chancellor for talking about the dangers of Hitler's party ideas. Unlike the reactionary behaviour of Prime Minister Chamberlain and Richard Dawkins on questions he seems to want to rule out of order ( nature of evil? ), Bonhoeffer could see where the lie started and how deep. Bonhoeffer was a great teacher and Christian leader whose insights can still keep us from great evil today .
Whatever your faith base ,I hope you stay radical today , even if it is a bit lonely....
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Kevin Rudd resists the idea and has said so directly and specifically recently. I think he is wrong and both parties would zoom out of wishy washy land if they found a bit of backbone on radical principles of environmental sustainability , for example.
The Greens, to their credit, have called for economy to go back to its roots to be radical .I am green but not a Green. Saying "we need to be radical" though is totally different from actually being radical . Almost like the very act of creating a party seems to kill it .Maybe small letter l "liberal" too?
Kevin Rudd ( former Australian Prime Minister) wisely chose a real radical to talk about before he got elected . This bloke was taken off the air 8 years before Hitler became Chancellor for talking about the dangers of Hitler's party ideas. Unlike the reactionary behaviour of Prime Minister Chamberlain and Richard Dawkins on questions he seems to want to rule out of order ( nature of evil? ), Bonhoeffer could see where the lie started and how deep. Bonhoeffer was a great teacher and Christian leader whose insights can still keep us from great evil today .
Whatever your faith base ,I hope you stay radical today , even if it is a bit lonely....
Does it seem like noone quite gets where you are coming from?. Join the club
Perhaps you would like to join us on this blog . Please do .
Labels: bonhoeffer, Dawkins, fanaticism, fanatics, Hitler, radical, reactionaries
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