Whats with this 'warrior' thing?

Philosophers who replace empiricism with pure logic (often from faulty premises), and intellectuals who replace both with rhetoric and postmodern discourse are undermining the very things that made the west such a great, powerful, and wealthy civilization that they could actually chose to sit around coming up with abstract ideas all day and still get fed by others.

I don't disagree, but I suggest that the situation is even worse than you describe.

Centuries ago the United States was established on philosophical principles of good government, which was embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. As personal peace and prosperity have become more important than principles of good government, these principles have been manipulated and redefined to suit the whims of those who are in power. Government has become less and less sensitive to civil rights, while it has become easy for various political and financial interests to manipulate our leaders to their advantage.

Since people have largely ceased to challenge each other in what they believe, accepting instead the idea that whatever you want to believe is okay, regardless of empirical evidence, the government can no longer get people to obey the law because everyone believes in a certain set of principles upon which the law is founded.

Thus, government must coerce people into obeying it with increasingly harsh penalties for disobedience -- penalties which often fly in the face of long established civil rights. Furthermore, the government must restrict the average man's ability to seek recourse.

For example, it is very common for the government to trample all over long standing constitutional rights when enforcing the tax code. The IRS routinely forces hundreds of thousands of people to testify against themselves. It routinely puts the burden of proof on the accused, seizes his assets without trial, etc. The bottom line is that it is not expedient for the government to collect money from its citizens if it has to prove their tax documents wrong. The whole system would break down in a massive overload. Economically speaking, it is just better to put the burden of proof on the citizen, Bill of Rights or no.

Likewise, to challenge the government on a question of rights is practically impossible, unless your case happens to serve the purposes of some powerful special interest group. In a standard courtroom, one often cannot even bring up the subject of constitutional rights. The only question to be argued is whether or not some particular law was broken. To appeal to the Supreme Court will cost millions, if the politically motivated justices will even condescend to hear the case. So the government becomes practically all-powerful, God walking on earth, to the common man.

Never mind that the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Never mind that it guarantees citizens the right to bear military arms.

One man seems to have little recourse but to blindly obey those in power.