To combat this insidious, deceptive force, how many in Liberal America have been willing, like Frodo, to leave our comfortable Hobbit-like niches and rise to the urgent challenge of our dangerous moment?
Yes, we are in basically the same situation as our heroes, but our side in this battle is not imitating their heroic defense of the good we love in our world. Indeed, the battle has been nearly one-sided.
Why is that? Why is it that, while we face an "evil force" that threatens our most sacred values, our response has been so much like that line from Yeats referred to earlier: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are filled with a passionate intensity"?
In the fantasy worlds of the movies, we willingly suspend our disbelief in such ancient notions as "the battle between good and evil."
But when we look at the real world around us, our belief system tells us there is no such thing as an "evil force." That's a primitive notion, our sophisticated rational worldview tells us.
In this "Press the Battle" series, I will try to show that this liberal worldview not only weakens us, but is also in error. The error is not in insisting on evidence and logic, but in not pursuing the rational and empirical approach far enough. There is more to our human world, I will try to show, than is dreamt of in our too-limited natural philosophy.
Coming soon: Beliefs that Make Liberal America Weak.
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