Before Bacevich, Babbitt
Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
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From Irving Babbitt’s Democracy and Leadership (1924):
A chief danger both to ourselves and others is that we shall continue to have a frontier psychology long after we have ceased to have a frontier. For a frontier psychology is expansive, and and expansiveness, I have tried to show, is, at least in its political manifestations, always imperialistic.
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Do the neocons (many of whom are of NYC origin and some of whom, quite famously, consider Central Park to be too much nature for them) suffer from a “frontier psychology”? Maybe vicariously-as in the ME.