Evil May Be 'unscientific' But So Is

Capitalism Will Behave Antisocially If It Is Profitable For It To Do So, And That Can Now Mean Human Devastation On An Unimaginable Scale. What Used To Be Apocalyptic Fantasy Is Today No More Than Sober Realism.

The Government Spokesman Announces That There Is No Truth In The Charges Of Widespread Corruption Within The Cabinet; Nobody Believes Him; He Knows That Nobody Believes Him, We Know That He Knows It, And He Knows It Too.

The Role Of The Intellectual, So It Is Said, Is To Speak Truth To Power. Noam Chomsky Has Dismissed This Pious Tag On Two Grounds. For One Thing, Power Knows The Truth Already; It Is Just Busy Trying To Conceal It. For Another, It Is Not Those In Power Who Need The Truth, But Those They Oppress.

As Far As Belief Goes, Postmodernism Prefers To Travel Light: It Has Beliefs, To Be Sure, But It Does Not Have Faith

History Works Itself Out By An Inevitable Internal Logic.