In his Jan . 7review of my book "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America," Rick Perlstein mistakenly claims that I make "the supposed imminence of mass violence the reason the rest of us should be fighting for the open society".
Hedges is worst when he makes the supposed imminence of mass violence the reason the rest of us should be fighting for the open society.
For even when 20th-century progress is most undeniable, prediction suggests not a continued ascent, but the possibility, perhaps even the imminence, of some catastrophe: another and more lethal world war, an ecological disaster, a technology whose triumphs may make the world uninhabitable by the human species, or whatever current shape the nightmare may take.
Jeffrey Goldberg, who made the case for the imminence of Iranian nuclear capacity, is now skeptical: "His recent actions suggest he doesn't quite know what he's doing".
It's that sense of imminence and immediacy that has made the singularity such a passionately contested proposition, and attracted interest – and investment – from extremely wealthy and intelligent individuals, as well as Google and Nasa, which have each put money into the Singularity University (co-founded by Kurzweil) near San Jose.
Threatened domestically by the reformer Girolamo Savonarola's denunciations and by the intrigues of the younger branch of the Medici family and threatened abroad by the imminence of a French invasion of Italy, he made the foolish and dangerous decision to abandon the old French alliance in favour of one with Naples.
Google and YouTube spokespeople have made repeated statements about the imminence of content filtering but did not respond to the Merc's report.
That said, sex does make them momentarily forget the imminence of death.
This makes a mockery of the "imminence" requirement for killing U.S. citizens.
Those who hold that the imminence of the end was a continuing aspect of human history as Jesus saw it also maintain that this phrase of the creed was a statement of that imminence, without any timetable necessarily implied.
