>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > I am reading a book called : Worse than Slavery. Parchman
> > Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, as background
> > material for my history of blues presentation. The reason
> > they used to round up young black men and literally work
> > them to death on contract labor projects and beat them with
> > leather strops dipped in salt and sand, was because they
> > had a core belief that black men were fundamentally inferior,
> > more animal than man, so they needed physical punishment to
> > be controlled. From the book: ""We must not be held to too
> > strict an accountability,' a Southern penologist complained.
> > 'We have a large alien population, an inferior race...'"
> >
> > This is the context that I saw the "division of the races
> > by gunas" post and objected.
>
> I think that's a sad but accurate representation of
> the classical Indian thought that Maharishi represents.
> Consider all his language about people being unable
> to govern themselves, and needing an 'enlightened'
> leadership. Superiority runs through the entire belief
> system, from 'TM is the best technique of meditation
> in the world' to 'Only siddhas can save the world by
> doing their program' to "You can't see other teachers
> because you'll become infected with their ideas.'
>
> It's 'the white man's burden' reworded as 'the enlight-
> ened man's burden.' And it's effective because it appeals
> to the elitist in all of us.
>
At its most benign, there's nothing wrong with the"enlightened man's burden," because it
simply means creating those large "coherence creating" groups and keeping them going.
Now, if you try to extend it PAST that, you might run into problems.
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