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Post by bot on Jun 11, 2007 23:34:44 GMT -8
The Assault on Reason Book Reviews By John Burns Publish Date: June 7, 2007 By Al Gore. The Penguin Press, 308 pp, $32.50, hardcover read at source> www.straight.com/article-94146/the-assault-on-reasonThe enemy of reason is fear, Al Gore argues in his latest book. Blinded by fear, the American people forgo hard-won democratic process. But who's to blame for this fear? Terrorists? Gore doesn't accept the claim that his countrymen have more to dread now than their ancestors did during the country's bloody founding, or during the world wars, or first facing down nuclear missiles. "It is simply an insult to those who came before us and sacrificed so much on our behalf," he writes, "to imply that we have more to be fearful of than they did." So why do these feel like the End Times? "Clearly, the current administration has misused fear to manipulate the political process," he begins. "But I think a far more important question is: How could our nation have become so uncharacteristically vulnerable to such an effective use of fear?"
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