Their futurist orientation also compels them to dismiss any knowledge base incompatible with the rush to tomorrow as "obsolete knowledge" (unhelpfully contracted throughout with the vaguely Orwellian Tofflerism "obsoledge"). Anyone who has read Bill McKibben's 2004 cautionary book Enough will be wary of claims made for genetic engineering and nanotechnologies, yet here the Tofflers wax enthusiastic over the prospects for these as if they were entirely unproblematic, even going so far as to label opponents of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) "anti-science. The Tofflers extend this antipathy to a wide range of "alternative" world-views. For instance, their chapter dealing with hostility to science (Trashing the Lab) astonishingly allocates one sentence each to fundamentalist Chri...
...THE heavily hyped new book by American futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler is a sometimes f.... Their ideological conservatism is also apparent in their analysis of the failure ...
... form of tsunamis and earthquakes, it was America and the Anglo (English-speaking) nations that acte... Pofitical Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism (Continuum), pp. 5, 20, 21, 29 and 31. . Peter C G...
The purpose of a study is to examine a particular incarnation of taxation - the imperial stamp duty imposed by the British Parliament on the American colonies briefly from 1765 to 1766, the demise of which is referred to as the "Stamp Act crisis." The version of stamp duty imposed on the colonies bore strong resemblance to that in operation in Great Britain with some modifications to accommodate colonial conditions. By the middle of the 18th century, a stamp duty had become an accepted part of the tax landscape in Britain, and the administrative machinery by which it was collected was firmly established. In view of this, the vehement rejection of a similar impost by the colonists was not a response that was either anticipated or expected. The response by the colonists can, it is argued,...
... in Pennsylvania, for example, Quaker conservatism prevailed and violent resistance was avoided [Newc...
...North America needs to end cannabis (marijuana) prohibition imme...Liberalism has more in common with conservatism than it does socialism. Please allow me to clarify...
.... Economic liberalism and social conservatism are ideologies currently transforming the world an...
... faces, according to Nobel Prize-winning American economist Paul Krugman. "Smiling supply-siders say... during the 2008 election, "to make conservatism the natural government philosophy of the country."...
Another problem with [Wayne Helgason]'s apology for aboriginal CFS is his reasoning that since over 80 per cent of Manitoba children in care are aboriginal, it only makes sense for aboriginals to deliver that care. Since we are talking about the welfare of children here, the converse of Helgason's argument should also be considered: that the high proportion of children in care could be indicating an acute degree of dysfunction within aboriginal communities. What is the merit of returning aboriginal children to their "community of origin" if that community is dysfunctional? But ideologues act on reflex, not on reflection. It's much easier to call Gage Guimond "a little warrior" after he's already been claimed in the battle to assert aboriginal governance. Helgason attempts to justify cul...
..., the unabashed voice of political conservatism. In a society that cherishes free speech, we must ... we launch a similar "humorous" assault on America's brave soldiers? Of course not. We are better tha...
... seemingly found within the British North America Act, 1867 certain implied rights analogous to a mo... was often associated with the conservatism of Burke, other scholars like Janelle Greenberg ha...
... David Frum's commitment to conservatism, but perhaps the most telling comes from his wife,...To many North Americans, Frum is simply the man who penned the infamous "a...
RUPERT Murdoch's takeover of the Wall Street Journal is a spectacular business coup. Murdoch has pocketed one of the country's two best-respected newspapers. He has paid top dollar for the Journal's parent company, Dow Jones. And he has arguably provided the Journal with the mixture of capital and management grit that it needs to thrive. The left has been vocally against. The Huffington Post website marked the news of the deal by reproducing several front-page stories from Murdoch's tabloids. On Aug. 1 protesters from Moveon.org gathered outside Dow Jones's headquarters to hand out parody headlines to demonstrate "the type of unreliable, partisan information businesspeople can expect from the news pages of the Journal under Rupert Murdoch. The sight of left-wing activists rallying to d...
...This is the first time that American criticism of the man (whom Private Eye, a British ... op-ed pages -- the bible of American conservatism -- will give him too much power over the movement....
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