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Nietzsche and the Trans Texas Corridor
When Eye On the Road blogged about Senator Ogden’s “The TTC is dead” comment in April, TexsTURF and other groups claimed it was an attempt to sabotage their march on the state capitol.
Now the group has changed their tune, crediting Ogden for giving citizens a heads up when his comment “let the cat out of the bag.”
What’s really wacky, though, is the philosophical parallel that accompanies this tete-a-tete. When the philosopher Nietzsche made a similar comment about God, it too, was hijacked and re-purposed for various purposes, endlessly re-construed by postmodernists and atheists alike. But the scholars always said it wasn’t literal, it was conceptual. Interesting how it’s now the very concept of a TTC that Turf says is moribund.
It’s fair to say the debate over financing the TTC will be the next big battle in the war over the corridor. Without getting in too deep about dueling identities and the relative nature of evil, I’ll close with these words of inspiration:
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one. — Nietzsche
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