--- TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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

Well, guess who's going to voted off the island
then???





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