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The ghost in the machine 2

August 14, 2008 - 2:17 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Konyok
2008-08-15 10:53:29

It’s a new paradigm, a smiley-faced “kind-to-the-planet” children’s crusade.

Humanists like Gandhi, Solzhenitsyn, MLK, Havel et al. fought for the dignity and value of human beings against the multifarious forces of great ideas and social convenience.

Now, we have a perverse inversion in which the heirs of humanism seek to sacrifice the human being to a faceless god of nature.