Greetings,
So how do you get to the _betterness_? I'm not being sarcastic, I
think this is an excellent place to investigate. There are the
present patterns, the past patterns and the future patterns. They
are all connected to each other and changing. Is there a better way
to look at the situation? What is to be done?
Is it that the GOOD, is what it is? Then, what next?
Are these the wrong questions to ask?
Marsha
At 04:22 PM 6/20/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Ron,
>
>What do you think about Bill O'Reily's recent comment, "... there
>will be unintended consequences [of the Immigration Bill] all over
>the place. The new census report says America's now one-third
>minority. And in four states -- California, New Mexico, Texas, and
>Hawaii -- whites are the minority." (Bill O'Reilly)?
>
>Does this (whites becoming the minority) give you, as it does Platt,
>cause for concern?
>
>The Klan may be less than it once was, but it rhetoric of fear and
>xenophobia have been usurped by politicians seeking to create and
>endless stream of "others" who seek to destroy you, and from whom
>only The Party can give you defense. (This was a basic premise of the
>BBC miniseries "The Power of Nightmares", thanks again to Khaled for
>bringing it to my attention).
>
>As for the Italian Mafia, we are infatuated with them. Whether The
>Sopranos or "Say hello to my little friend" (in a mock Italian
>accent), and tell-all books from former mob affiliates routinely make
>the top 10 list. Grand Theft Auto games bristle with mob jokes, hits
>and give you the ability in instances to recreate famous (sometimes
>fictional) mob history (like the Vice City ending that parallels Scarface.
>
>On a side note, there is ""Left Behind: Eternal Forces", a video game
>where "you are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military
>mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists,
>gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state -
>especially moderate, mainstream Christians." And I hear the Islamic
>terrorists have developed video games, for training purposes we are
>told, where in kind of polar opposition to the Splinter Cell games,
>their mission is to save the world from U.S. encroachment.
>
>Anyway, this is the world we live in thanks to the "nightmare
>politicians" and the never-ceasing rhetoric of xenophobia that has
>darkened our landscape, indeed the world's landscape, since at least
>the 80s. While there have always been wing-nuts (see the history of
>marijuana legislation in The Emperor Wears No Clothes, a collusion
>between big industry (the DuPonts) and racism wielded to protect
>their investment via fear), the current shift from fringe wing-nutism
>to mainstream wing-nutism has fueled an explosion in "fear of the
>other". Many have tried to mainstream racism itself, either promoting
>it as a "natural state" of human beings, or as a "non-violent
>science", or in many cases simply attacking manifestations of
>diversity while claiming to be tolerant ("Ban the Hijab!", for example).
>
>I'm reminded of the classic George Carlin skit. "You ever notice that
>everyone driving faster than you of the freeway is an asshole? And
>everyone who is driving slower than you is an idiot? Its amazing we
>ever get anywhere with alll the assholes and idiots on the road."
>
>Its amazing we ever get anywhere with all the [fill in a list of your
>favorite racial and ethnic slurs, including those against your own
>kind] on the road. Isn't it?
>
>
>Arlo
>
>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/
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/
