> there seems to be an let's-start-an-
> island-nation fascination with TMers, but it's just impractical and
> unnecessary anyway...
Actually, the island fantasy is right in line with the
"Vedic society" fantasy. Both are RETRO, meaning that
they are based on trying to artificially create a world
that resembles the way one *thinks* the world was like
at sometime in the past. With islands, one hearkens
back to the fantasies of discovering a new world, free
and pure and waiting for the faithful, like paradise.
With the Vedic society fantasy, it's the same thing,
taking a set of myths and believing that there was, at
one point, a time that was unlike Now, a time where
"everything was perfect and nothing hurt."
There has never been such a time; there will never be
such a time. That is the nature of the relative. Those
who cling to fantasies such as these are, in my opinion,
saying more about their inability to live in the relative
world gracefully and with joy than about their dreams.
Such utopian fantasies strike me as saying more about the
dreamers' fears and aversions than about their dreams.
Unc
"You know you've created God in your own image when
he hates the exact same people that you do."
- Gordon Charrick
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