On Crackpot Realism: An Homage to C. Wright Mills: Newsroom: The Independent Institute

[Monte Davis]

Thanks - there's the citation, 1958. Could 2002 have asked == or could 2015
ask -- for anything clearer than this?

"[The crackpot realists] know of no solutions to the paradoxes of the
Middle East and Europe, the Far East and Africa except the landing of
Marines. Being baffled, and also being very tired of being baffled, they
have come to believe that there is no way out—except war—which would remove
all the bewildering paradoxes of their tedious and now misguided attempts
to construct peace. In place of these paradoxes they prefer the bright,
clear problems of war—as they used to be [i.e. the "Good War," WWII]. For
they still believe that “winning” means something, although they never tell
us what."

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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