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                       THE AGE OF UNREASON
       Propaganda Replaces Perspicacity in Public Affairs

By Edward Zehr


If you liked the Age  of  Reason  --  the  Enlightenment  of  the
eighteenth  century  that  provided  the impetus for the American
Revolution, among other things -- you are certain  to  loath  the
present  benighted  age,  exemplified  by intellectuals who don't
know how to think, and politically oriented types who don't  even
try.   Now  that Silly Season is upon us once again we can expect
confirmation of this by way of myriad examples, great and small.

A   particularly   glaring   example   was   provided   by    the
Democrat/mainstream   media   response  to  George  Dubya  Bush's
selection of Dick Cheney to be his running mate for the  November
election.  Astute choice, chortled Mario Cuomo, the last previous
Democrat governor of New York and radio host manque -- Cheney has
the  "gravitas"  that Dubya so noticeably lacks. Of course, Mario
was merely chanting the canticle of  the  day  from  the  liberal
Democrat/mainstream  media  playbook. Other voices could be heard
singing the accompaniment: It occurred to  Sen.  John  Kerry  (D-
Mass.)   that  Dubya  really  was  a  bit  short  on gravitas and
Jonathan Alter of Newsweek commented that Dubya  could  sure  use
the gravitas which Cheney brings to the GOP ticket.

Now "gravitas" is not a word that is on the  tip  of  everybody's
tongue. In fact, I was unable to find it in my first look through
my unabridged, encyclopedic dictionary. Nor was it to be found in
the  12,000-word  supplement to Webster's Third New International
Dictionary. Perhaps that is because it is a Latin word. I finally
scrounged  it  up  from the etymology of the word "gravity" in my
unabridged: [

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