“Moderation” may seek to manifest and validate “solid” ground simply by finding a sort of “middle” ground among competing claims and calling it some sort of “common” ground. It is defined and given meaning in the world only by the coordinates of the “grounds” around it, however unfounded and spurious the claims thereto may be. It is “ungrounded,” and unfounded in the way that colonies and settlements may be unfounded.

But is it worse? Does it cosign, endorse, legitimize, in very fact give credence to, radical extremism? By putting all claims on some sort of

“equal ground?” 

Please see our recent Essay entitled WHEN THERE IS NOTHING MODERATE ABOUT THE HORRORS YOU OPPOSE, HOW CAN YOU BE A “MODERATE?” and dated 09 May, 2009 

“The real power of junk thought lies in its status as a centrist phenomenon, fueled by the American credo of tolerance that places all opinions on an equal footing and makes little effort to separate fact from opinion.”

Susan Jacoby, The Age Of American Unreason: Pp 211

“Men meet together for many reasons in the course of business. They need to instruct or persuade each other. They must agree on a course of action. They find thinking in public more productive or less painful than thinking in private. But there are at least as many reasons for meetings to transact no business. Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.

 
The fact that no business is transacted at a no-business meeting is normally not a serious cause of embarrassment to those attending. Numerous formulas have been devised to prevent discomfort. Thus scholars, who are great devotees of the no-business meeting, rely heavily on the exchange-of-ideas justification. To them the exchange of ideas an absolute good. Any meeting at which ideas are exchanged is, therefore, useful. This justification is nearly ironclad. It is very hard to have a meeting of which it can be said that no ideas were exchanged.”

 
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929 (50th Anniversary Edition: Houghton Mifflin, New York 1979) Pp 139

“Could Not Be Described As In Some Sense Rational:” Eric Hobsbawm

“Economics thus became the only social science in our period undisturbed by the problem of non-rational behavior, since it was so defined as to exclude all transactions which could not be described as being in some sense rational.”

Eric Hobsbawm: The Age Of Empire. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Ondon: 1987. Pp. 270

Press Release:

Today Israel announced that Hamas is using heavily armed Israeli soldiers as human shields.

Israeli Defense minister Ehud “Heydude” Barak (everybody gets a nickname) claimed that Hamas deliberately operates in areas that are thickly infested with heavily armed Israeli military personnel who are actively engaged in massive attacks on them.

He said Israeli soldiers are more likely to be killed by their own “friendly fire” if they are in areas that are densely populated with other Israeli soldiers.

Barak claims the killing of Israeli soldiers by Israeli soldiers is a deliberate strategy of Hamas since it “makes Israel look bad.”

Definitions For A New World Order. takebackourlanguage.com, 2009

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Definitions For A New World Order: takebackourlanguage.com, 2009

For your amusement, our Definition For A New World Order: INEXPLAINISM.

When we encounter the unexplained, we sometimes abandon explanation and embrace exploring. Then we can embrace and endure inexplication. It is not so much that we tolerate the admissibility of the inexplicable. We need only suspend the inadmissibility of contradiction.

We admit, welcome, enfold and cherish the possibility and practice of (not)explaining. Could you inexplain that, please, Mr. Professor sir?  We offer… Inexplication as Method. As Doctrine. Maybe we are the Inexplainists. We offer, for your consideration, Post-Explainism, an -ism with an -ist to call it’s own.

-Definitions for a New World Order: takebackourlanguage.com, 2008

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-Definitions for a New World Order: takebackourlanguage.com, 2008