--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ultrarishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver" > > > > [...] > > > > Now it is > > > > > difficult to find the faintest shred of evidence that the world is > > > > being "saved". So the Dream > > > > > is Over, and the disappointment for many is huge and painful. > > > > > > > > I must be truely insane. I find the New and Improved TMO to be a > > > > wonderous thing and genuinely have more expectations for it than for > > > > the TMO of the Merv days. > > > > > > > > > > I don't know. I pretty much prefer the "Merv days". Today, MMY and > > > the TMO seem more like Jimmy Swaggart and Pat Robertson and Bechtel > > > and FoxNews. > > > > > > > > > I was following LB until he equated disillusionment with the TMO with > > disillusionment with 'evil' USA. I think 'evil' USA is actually > > another media myth. > > > > JohnY > > > @@@@@@@@ > > Needless to say, I do not expect or require people to agree with everything I post. > > With respect to the "media myth", I think you have it exactly backwards. USA as the bastion > of freedom and democracy is the media myth. One has only to see who owns the media to > understand how this could be the case. > > Outside the USA, the Evil Empire view is currently almost universal. It has particularly > floated to the surface with the current administration, coincidentally. > > The history of military adventurism and economic exploitation, the subvesion of foreign > governments, etc, is well established, but it NOT generally explored in the mainstream > media. > > More blatant recent developments regarding fraudulent elections and the subversions of > our civil liberties are merely the more recent and obvious indicators of corporate fascism. > > Europeans, having had more experience with these things, tend to see us as naive > barbarians. > > Most Americans, on the other hand, tend to be in denial about it. Those in the early stages > of owning it tend to be angry and/or frightened. > > L B S > Nothing complicated, I just think that on the whole the US has been more a positive than a negative force in world affairs and the 'evil' America thing is perpetuated by a press with an agenda of it's own. Those 'experienced' Europeans have had their collective bacon pulled from the fire by US barbarians quite a few times. And like Maharishi are rather ungrateful about it too, when it suits their purposes. As far as the TMO is concerned we're only a little evil but our cash is quite good.
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