Word: moralizations
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...Martin's choice of subject matter-he rarely digresses into politics while he's singing, although he's an advocate for fair trade when he's not-but his tone. He wants to teach us how to feel better about ourselves, and his lessons have the moral superiority disguised as sensitivity that marked Bono's mighty mullet period. "Are you lost or incomplete/ Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece/ Tell me how you feel" he begs on Talk. "You just want somebody listening to what you say/ It doesn't matter...
...this panic about certainty and people who display it? It is not just, as conventional wisdom has it, that liberals think the last election was lost because of a bloc of benighted Evangelicals. It is because we are almost four years from 9/11 and four years of moral certainty, and firm belief is about all that secular liberalism can tolerate...
...remember 9/11? How you felt? The moral clarity of that day and the days thereafter? Just days after 9/11, on this very page, Lance Morrow wrote a brilliant, searing affirmation of right against wrong, good against evil...
...Enough. A new day, a new wave. Time again for nuance, doubt and the comforts of relativism. It is not just the restless search for novelty, the artist's Holy Grail. It is weariness with the responsibilities and the nightmares that come with clarity--and the demands that moral certainty make on us as individuals and as a nation...
...There is little doubt that China will be in deep trouble if the [avian flu] pandemic were to strike in the next few years. It has a moral obligation to its own people, and to the world, to rectify the situation as soon as possible." DR. DAVID HO, U.S. aids researcher, warning in an article in the medical journal Nature that China is dangerously unprepared for an outbreak of the h5n1 virus...