"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion." -- Dwight EisenhowerI like, um, it.
Others, lots of them in Ithaca no doubt, would reply that Ike also warned of the Military Industrial Complex:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."Some would say to LT G, you're just a cog in the machine man, can't you see it!?
But they ignore the totality of Ike's farewell address. For a mere handful of lines later he says (and this is particularly worthy of consideration in the context of Global Warming):
"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."The same elites who warn of danger via Ike's address in the Military-Industrial Complex, if they acknowledge this later warning at all call it anti-intellectualism.
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