For Ong, male agonistic tendencies involve the sense of adversativeness, the sense of being up against something.
For former President George W. Bush, good is up against evil.
Wolfe reports that Pete Singer "sarcastically dismissed Bush as "the president of good and evil'" (page 82).
Instead of sarcastically dismissing Bush as the president of good and evil, and instead of digressing about Mani and his influence, why not take Bush's own statements and claims and debate those?
To wit: "Bush says X is evil. But I [Alan Wolfe] say that X is not evil."
Or: "Bush says Y is good. But I [Alan Wolfe] say that Y is not good."
And so on.
If Bush is the leader of American counter-evil, then Bush as leader must make appeals to his followers, or else risk losing his followers.
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