what about 'the tribes and the states' by william james sidis? he traces the origins of american democracy to the federation of several indian tribes.
--- On Fri, 25/7/08, Platt Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Platt Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MD] Evil "Multiculturalism" and Big Bad Hispanics > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: Friday, 25 July, 2008, 9:13 AM > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:55 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Platt] > > Looks like they missed out on the glories of > multiculturism. > > > > [Arlo] > > How does that refute in any way Pirsig's point > about the multicultural > > origins > > of our "self-evident truths"? Any way at > all? Any way, really.... give me > > one. > > > Once again, Pirsig's observation about American > Indians: > > "Primitive tribes such as the American Indians have no > record of sweetness > and cooperation with other tribes. They ambushed them, > tortured them, dashed > their children's brains out on rocks." > > Does that sound like American Indians contributed to the > concepts of "life, > liberty and the pursuit of happiness?" > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Start at the new Yahoo!7 for a better online experience. www.yahoo7.com.au Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
