Raymond, Full of good stuff!
Harry ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ray wrote: >Karen you said: > > This comes back to the old question of do men as individuals affect >history, > > or is history such a solid mass that individuals are pulled along by it >but > > never able to drive history a certain way? > >The way I understand this is that the only control we have over history is >with the choice of the environment that will surround us knowing that we are >shaped by it. That includes the historical environment. On the one hand >the Jews have chosen a renewal of that historical environment while on the >other they are surrounding themselves with moral problems that has turned >the public relations battle from being David to being Golaith. I feel >that Islamic history is severely compromised as is the Christian, but up >until the present Jewish history has had a remarkable morality to it. The >Environment they now surround themselves with is a great danger to the >heritage of that history. On the other hand, to refuse to act and to own >your house is to remove the problem of morality by simply not having enough >power to make morality an issue. > > > > Of course, we all agree that individuals matter in their local, regional >and > > now global histories. Sharon is certainly part of the problem. He gives > > the wall or solid mass of desperate Islamic hate a target on the world >event > > stage, just as Arafat is a target for the global defenders of Israel. > > Identifying the I - P problem as an unmovable, impenetrable object (open > > intent to sweep Israel out to the sea) only contributes to the problem, it > > makes it seem impossible to change, just as Tom Walker wrote re: Emery >Roe's > > Analytical Tip opinion that environmentalists and economists can make >doing > > anything about global warming or global poverty seem too large a problem >to > > deal with by individuals or individual states. > > > > When we condense historical events down to a formula to understand it, we > > often miss the mythos that is involved. Your statement is practical, >using > > logos, and reflects (what I think is) your intellectual >training/preference, > > but both mythos and logos are involved in life and the unfolding drama of > > mankind. > > > >In the issue of moral choice Mythos is the "ground of being" while Logos is >the choice of naming how you will look at that "ground of being" and act >within it. Logos is always creating history because it claims to be >factual data that is exclusive of other possibilities, but that is not true >when regarding history that you have not directly experienced yourself. >History is a set of options that runs all the way from yes to no with every >possibility in between. To say the Word is to choose a path but not THE >path. There are as many as there are slices to reality. That is a part >of the issue with the scientists as "handmaidens of the culture" that I have >been discussing in Re: To survive or not to survive. I would be >interested in what you have to say on that as well. > > > > If the right CEO can make or break a corporation, if one professor and not > > another can attract more students to a department, if a single talented > > researcher can make the difference in a breakthrough in medical science, >if > > one lawyer can make a jury see the evidence in a different way, then why > > should we not blame Sharon and Arafat for contributing to this political > > problem? I see the I - P issue as a crumbling brick wall, not a solid >one, > > and I am focused on the crack in my line of sight that I can do something > > about. - Karen > > >That is because you 1. believe in redemption and 2. believe in public >responsibility. I agree with you on both. > >Ray ****************************** Harry Pollard Henry George School of LA Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (818) 352-4141 Fax: (818) 353-2242 *******************************
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