Gentlemen, gentlemen,( I may have missed but I didn't notice any women taking part in these, sometimes heated exchanges, if I have : apologies)
What we have been witnessing this last week is American democracy at work. Is has been the dynamic expression of what your SPOV's allow. You should be proud and relieved but I hear nothing but complaints, disappointment, left-, right- and centre bashing, etc,etc,etc. You sound like a pack of whinging pommy bastards. Here in China, there are no elections, the people are excluded from expressing themselves politically. They have the Party political ideology rammed down their throats, they do not like it but they are one of the most optimistic people I have ever met. Some of the people I have met have gone through things you and I together hope never to go through. However their basic outlook, their basic experience of life is one of optimism. If and when times are tough everybody chips in to help eachother. The sense of community is strong, the sense of togetherness is strong. Always friendly, helpful, caring. You have elections, you have a say in the political processes of the country, you have the capitalist, free-market ideology rammed down your throats...it is the basis upon which America is built, you love it!! Yet, the people have spoken and you do not like it or , at the least, are extremely guarded....and very worried. What do you want? What monster have you created with this freedom of speech, of assembly, of self-determination, of individual rights, free market economy, government by representation, that you react so bitterly, guardedly, pessimistically? How do these express your static Social PoV's. Is there still a connection? America has brought forth some fantastic people: Abraham Lincoln, shot! John F. Kennedy,shot! Robert Kennedy, shot! Martin Luther King, shot! (Ofcourse there are a host of others, but these were outstanding hope giving, intelligent people). And now you have chosen Barak Obama. A brilliant speaker I must say, a person, through whose rhetoric and intellectual ability, can conjure up hope and hopefully some change. You are putting him in charge of an 'intellectual, social and economic rust-belt, a whole society that has given up on Dynamic improvement and is slowly trying to slip back to Victorianism, the last static ratchet-latch' (Lila,p310). And I can add here of course a political/ governmental rust-belt (no different from the Chinese or Russian or for that matter the European one). No wonder he suggested 1 term will not be enough. What do you want? What does an 'ideal' America look like? Sometimes you have to will to change (for the better), you have to will to hope(for the better), you have to will to be compassionate (for the better), you have to will to care( for the better). Barak Obama is the best choice America could have made and you did it. The world is hopeful again. About eff'n time too! Say: we can do it!! For what it is worth. Andre 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/
