Way to go.
I have a question for you. A friend sent me the following that I did not know about Newt...I think he got it from Patriot HQ. Do you know anything about this? Is it true?
In 1994, Gingrich described himself as “a conservative futurist.” He said that those who were trying to define him should look no further than The Third Wave, a 1980 book written by Alvin Toffler. The book describes our society as entering a post-industrial phase in which abortion, homosexuality, promiscuity, and divorce are perfectly normal, even virtuous.
Toffler penned a letter to America’s “founding parents,” in which he said: “The system of government you fashioned, including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must be radically changed and a new system of government invented – a democracy for the 21st century.” He went on to describe our constitutional system as one that “served us so well for so long, and that now must, in its turn, die and be replaced.”
Gingrich recommended The Third Wave as essential reading to his colleagues when he became Speaker of the House. In his forward to another Toffler book, Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave, he grieved at the lack of appreciation for “Toffler’s insight” in The Third Wave and blamed politicians who had not applied his model for the “frustration, negativism, cynicism and despair” of the political landscape.
He went on to explain that Toffler advocated a concept called “anticipatory democracy,” and bragged that he had worked with him for 20 years “to develop a future-conscious politics and popular understanding that would make it easier for America to make the transition” to a Third Wave civilization
I hope it is not so. Toffler is an abject progressive who, in my mind is part of the enemy trying to fundamentall change our nation.
God's speed to you and yours my frined.
Once again, whenever someone who is by nature a scholar refers to a source, or even "recommends" a source, it is always for the purposes of thought and provocation. I tell EVERYONE to read Saul Alinsky. Do I endorse Alinsky? You know the answer to that.
I think "Microcosm" by George Gilder is great, and recommend it, but there are things in there I disagree with. Very few people are right all the time. I think this is the case with Newt's infatuation with Toffler. It's the same way almost any conservative recommends "Atlas Shrugged," but almost none accept Rand's objectivism.
As a scholar, I think Newt frequently picks and chooses the evidence that makes his points and that shapes his thinking.
Newt is something of an intellectual butterfly, but one who while quite broad is not terribly deep in consistency. Guess we'll see.