Word: moralizers
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...times of crisis, the nation loses its short-term cultural memory - puts aside idiot movie comics, suicidal rock lyrics, must-see reality TV and the pursuit of the moral triviality that is Gary Condit - and, like a senior citizen finding solace in the distant past, rekindles that old feeling. In pop culture, at least for a while, many Americans traded in cool pop culture for warm, sarcasm for sentiment, alienation for community. In the blink of a national tragedy, we went from jaded to nice, just like that...
...linked to religious extremism is that it subverts perhaps our greatest article of faith: our belief in the idea of progress. Because it is our faith in the idea of progress, in the idea that the human race is somehow evolving, that allows us to view nationalism, religion, and moral certainty as benign...
...American faith in progress as inevitable and inexorable is one of the things that defines us as Americans. America was founded on the Enlightenment idea that the expansion of knowledge - scientific, political, even moral - would inevitably make life better and better...
...attacks and China expressing undying support for Islamabad. But a bold op-ed in the same paper demands that Pakistan extricate itself from all direct involvement in Kashmir and take a strong stand against terrorism there. "A war of national liberation is essentially based on a premise of morality. Random killings of innocents in Kashmir - by our so-called liberation fighters - sullies the moral basis of the Kashmiri struggle," the author suggests. He adds that Pakistani zealots involved in Kashmir are fueling extremism there, much the way as the al-Qaeda elements did to the Taliban...
...Moral Obligation