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...program also hints at the play's message: The world is "hurtling towards a social, ecological and mass-mediated cultural catastrophe, for which Western Enlightenment seems to have no solution." With this defeatist slogan in hand, Muller proceeds to attack the audience with images and scenarios that represent this "catastrophe...
Those who bash Japan are running down America. Their hand wringing and defeatist attitude assumes that the United States is a pitiful, helpless giant that can only survive behind new trade barriers. The path to prosperity in the next century lies not in building protectionist walls for ourselves but in breaching those erected by others...
This year the seven freshmen on the varsity team have been key in turning the defeatist attitude around...
This is demagogic, defeatist political thinking at its basest. Massachusetts is in the throes of a crisis. Maybe our legislators haven't learned that yet--and that's pathetic. But arbitrarily cutting taxes won't teach them that lesson, either. However, it will widen the state's appalling spending/revenue gap. It will put people out of work. It will put people on the streets. It will deprive people of quality police protection. CLT hurts people...
Solzhenitsyn suggests that there are already clear signs of a national and religious renaissance, that Russians have always been hostile to the socialist system and even that they harbored defeatist sentiments during World War II. These ideas, which I may have oversimplified somewhat, are little short of myths. If our people and our leaders ever succumb to such notions, the results could be tragic...