Reagan America: What made sense?
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Author(s)J. Robert Hobgood
ISBN / ASINB008R3S0FO
ISBN-13978B008R3S0F1
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ABOUT AMERICA’S 1980s MINDFULNESS
Too little is said about either Reagan or America in the 1980s if the one is not linked to the other. This book explores the gravity of it all.
The book was written decades ago and never published. Hopefully, in sorting it out the reader will find justification for its publication now.
The point is not about the past or the future or about greatness or smallness or liberalism or conservatism. It is about the enduring intelligibility of things, particularly the profound mindfulness to be derived from a sustained inquiry into the mindfulness of America in the Reagan years.
Was Reagan's rhetoric not profoundly simplistic? Was his presidency not a mere triumph of endless platitudes? If not, what lessons do we learn from America’s Reagan years?
In the course of inquiry into Reagan’s words and America’s 1980s mindfulness old issues emerge – American optimism, the idealism of democracy, the primacy of freedom, the divine designs upon social relations, the judicial role of the courts, the free market way to achieve productivity. These and other issues were major issues in the 1980s and remain major issues today.
Why labor over well-worn issues? Until the War against Terrorism ends, until the last terrorist holdout embraces freedom and circumspection, further reflection on freedom and democracy will be warranted. But will freedom and democracy prevail in America until then? If so, how will the divorce and abortion rates be drastically reduced, and how will the elections of 2012 not mask the Tea Party issue of the national debt?
Think about it. Will government corruption prove more powerful (or less evil) than the Taliban in Afghanistan or elsewhere? Will forces born of ruthless power not overwhelm innocence and good will hence exercise dominion and control over governments in Syria and around the globe? Get to the point, one asks!? What is civilized about civilizing initiatives to govern willfully?
We look into the mirror of America’s 1980s mindfulness, if and when we think to inquire, in order to look at ourselves. We look for imperatives. We must. Ask the questions that get to the source point of meaningful concepts. Examine critically the rational dimensions of the perceptions that source the intelligibility of things. In truth, more sense needs to be made of Reagan and America and wealth and freedom if the world is to become a better place to be ourselves.
Too little is said about either Reagan or America in the 1980s if the one is not linked to the other. This book explores the gravity of it all.
The book was written decades ago and never published. Hopefully, in sorting it out the reader will find justification for its publication now.
The point is not about the past or the future or about greatness or smallness or liberalism or conservatism. It is about the enduring intelligibility of things, particularly the profound mindfulness to be derived from a sustained inquiry into the mindfulness of America in the Reagan years.
Was Reagan's rhetoric not profoundly simplistic? Was his presidency not a mere triumph of endless platitudes? If not, what lessons do we learn from America’s Reagan years?
In the course of inquiry into Reagan’s words and America’s 1980s mindfulness old issues emerge – American optimism, the idealism of democracy, the primacy of freedom, the divine designs upon social relations, the judicial role of the courts, the free market way to achieve productivity. These and other issues were major issues in the 1980s and remain major issues today.
Why labor over well-worn issues? Until the War against Terrorism ends, until the last terrorist holdout embraces freedom and circumspection, further reflection on freedom and democracy will be warranted. But will freedom and democracy prevail in America until then? If so, how will the divorce and abortion rates be drastically reduced, and how will the elections of 2012 not mask the Tea Party issue of the national debt?
Think about it. Will government corruption prove more powerful (or less evil) than the Taliban in Afghanistan or elsewhere? Will forces born of ruthless power not overwhelm innocence and good will hence exercise dominion and control over governments in Syria and around the globe? Get to the point, one asks!? What is civilized about civilizing initiatives to govern willfully?
We look into the mirror of America’s 1980s mindfulness, if and when we think to inquire, in order to look at ourselves. We look for imperatives. We must. Ask the questions that get to the source point of meaningful concepts. Examine critically the rational dimensions of the perceptions that source the intelligibility of things. In truth, more sense needs to be made of Reagan and America and wealth and freedom if the world is to become a better place to be ourselves.
