Tony writes:
>Tom, this is the worst sort of American exceptionalist theorizing
>But it comes from the heart, so it gets a plus for honesty, at least.
Yayyyyy! I finally score a plus on Crashlist!Hooray!
>You are a stand-in on this list, for Mr. and Mrs. Joe US Citizen.
>Terrible, but true.
Awk! Mr.&Mrs. Joe would be appalled to have ME in that position. (Terrible,
but true also.) However I shall do my best as stand-in for them anyway, at
least for the rest of this post.
>Two BIG problems with this. I believe that the indigenous might >have
>preferred even the Spanish.
Except of course indigenous Aztecs. However I would actually agree,the
Lakota Sioux would have preferred Spaniards. ... and I estimate that
African-Americans would too. It is my limited understanding that Spanish law
provided for some rights to slaves? I am not so sure that over-all the
"indigenous" see any difference between the different European colonizers
and their genocide, however.
>The Vietnamese might even have
>preferred the French.
Dien Bien Phu might indicate otherwise. (Just a guess.) <g>
>And the Iraquis, the British.... if they just
>came alone without Clinton and Bush being the guiding hands. I
>could go on and on....... with this line.
I am sitting here somewhat amused at the prospect of comparing the relative
merits of different brands of Imperialism. It's a rather capitalist
endeavor, after all, to compare brands of anything. But since I kibitzed on
your's and Julien's discussion, I deserve to get MY fingers burnt; so I will
respond no more to this package of bologna.
>Another big problem. Selfishness is not 'a natural and normal
>mentality', except in toddlers. One can say that capitalism is
>nothing more than a state of arrested development. Let's put the
>honchos on Ritalin!
At last! A workable plan for avoiding the crash!
>Please don't offend our human nature again,
>with this Christian apologism.
I can't promise that, but I will promise to stay out of churches.
>Inherent sin, my God!
>
>Comradely, Tony
You should smile a bit more, my friend. Try laughing, too. It is wonderful.
Tom
"I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my
side ...." - Treebeard "The Two Towers"
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