I wonder what actually IS the political philsophy of today? Is there any idealism left? The Power of Nightmares, a BBC documentary, has some interesting points on this. It surmises that since the liberal dream collapsed, politicians can no longer supply us with idealised dreams of the future. To an extent their role collapsed. So they found a new role - to provide us with nightmares of what might happen. It talks about the political philosophy of Leo Strauss, who influenced the Neo-Cons (the right), and compares this to the philosophy of the Islamists. Rather freakily, their philsophies are similar - the world is divided into good and evil. Both the Americans and the Islamists regard themselves as the good; and they must stamp out evil - each other.
You can watch the power of nightmares on Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1002626006461047517
2006-08-31
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