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Zatamon
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posted 20 February 2003 08:24 PM
I just started reading Ursula LeGuin’s “The Telling”. I have always admired her previous books (“The left Hand of Darkness” and “The Lathe of Heaven” in particular), but this book is breathtaking. It was published in 2000, way before 9-11, and in the first 20 pages she brilliantly makes her point: a culture based on advanced science and technology can be as insanely suffocating and self-destructive as one based on religious fundamentalism. The two can happily coexist in pathological minds. We are witnessing this point today, in our daily lives, in a crushing and sole-destroying way. Bush and his gang are proving it to us, from hour to hour, as the drama of human insanity unfolds around us. And there are still human beings who can’t see it, who are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to argue the logic of insanity, based on insane premises. The conclusions of these deranged minds are: - We can save a people by destroying them
- We can establish democracy by supporting dictators
- We can achieve freedom by enslaving everyone
- We can create wealth by destroying and wasting our resources
- We can make friends by killing and torturing their loved ones
- We can fight terrorism by making more terrorists
- We can serve the people by ignoring and suppressing them
- We can create trust by lying through our teeth
- We can have peace by waging total war
- We can have unity by triggering mutual hatred Have I missed any? I am sure I have. Still, there you are, food for the thought. Of course I know that, as usual, I have been preaching to the choir (who already know) and riled up the rest (who will never know), but what the heck? I was bored.
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Boinker
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posted 20 February 2003 10:49 PM
How about these ones:We can solve the Middle East Crisis by making the crisis world wide. We can end terror in Israel by provoking world wide terror. We can make Israel feel safer by making everyone else feel less safe. We can keep the world safe for democracy by behaving antidemocratically. (perhaps you covered this one.)   [ 20 February 2003: Message edited by: Boinker ]
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Zatamon
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posted 21 February 2003 12:30 AM
One more:- The best way to get a bad guy in a crowded room is by killing everyone in the room and then blowing up the building. PS. And then finding out that the bad guy was the only one who survived and got away. [ 21 February 2003: Message edited by: Zatamon ]
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Zatamon
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posted 27 February 2003 07:44 AM
I received the following reply on Znet:"What about breaking the law in order to enforce it? click Of course this is a popular theme in Hollywood cop thrillers. So forget about debating International Law with the general public. But still... What wouldn’t I give to see Dubya Bush in front of an international war crimes tribunal? I bet it would wipe that smug little smirk off his face."
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