8144, RE: laughable Posted by nighttripper, Tue Jul-09-02 01:10 AM
>i think it's american puritanism and religiosity v european >urbanity and freethinking. he has a point. >
A very broad and moot one, then.
>are there european analogues to the importance of the >religious right in the us? the attorney general annointed >himself with olive oil at his inauguration, for pete's sake. > and i think the religiosity is intimately entwined with >anti-intellectualism and a suspicion of cities as sites for >secular learning. i mean, would "pointy headed >intellectuals" or dan quayle's foaming about the "cultural >elite" even be an insult in europe? >
Well, it depends. If you're talking France or Poland, for instance. Jean Jaures or Maurras and the Action Francaise (and Le Pen, nowadays) .
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