Word: totalitarian
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Reagan cautioned against ignoring “the aggressive impulses” of the totalitarian Soviet regime, which he called an “evil empire.” Bush singled out Iraq, Iran and North Korea as examples of repressive states that “constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world...
Goldman wrote that “conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.” In Zinn’s mind, the notions of unity and “unconditional support” that Americans are presented with today are “scary and totalitarian.” Dissenters have always held a great appeal for Zinn in his writing, and in practice, he believes that dissent is critical to a well-functioning society. (He notes a certain irony in the fact that first amendment rights are most limited when they are most necessary.) His arguments...
Which brings me to the third problem. The IOC is being run by narrower and narrower interests. It spends time bashing Athens for not spending enough government money for the 2004 Summer Olympics while awarding the totalitarian Chinese government the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. Lip service is being paid to improvements in drug testing. The committee adds sports to each Games like there’s a sale on them at Filene’s. Ballroom dancing? Extreme snowboarding...
...self-subverted. The world might learn to be more alert to another kind, the arrogance of powerlessness--which may take the form of aggressive exaltation suffused with God's righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel," "jihad" and "fatwa"? More arrogant than the totalitarian conceit that Allah obliges "the faithful" to wage vicious holy war against the airplanes and office buildings of the ungodly? What is more arrogant, or in worse taste, than hijack heroes' sleazy dreams of paradise, with 72 virgins at the disposal of each "martyr...
...self-subverted. The world might learn to be more alert to another kind, the arrogance of powerlessness - which may take the form of aggressive exaltation suffused with God's righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel," "jihad" and "fatwa"? More arrogant than the totalitarian conceit that Allah obliges "the faithful" to wage vicious holy war against the airplanes and office buildings of the ungodly? What is more arrogant, or in worse taste, than hijack heroes' sleazy dreams of paradise, with 72 virgins at the disposal of each "martyr...