--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > I agree that the reason the Arab countries are the > way that they are (corruption and all, imbalance of > rich and poor and all) is because the people of those > countries allow it to take place. However, it's a little > different there than it is in America. In America I think > you can safely use the word "apathy" because you're talk- > ing about a people who grew up having been told that > *they* could change things any time they wanted, through > the voting process. > > This is not true in the Arab world. These people grew > up in a culture in which the idea of unseating a reigning > monarch or tranferring "power to the people" is unthink- > able. There is no model for it; it has never happened. > It's like trying to get a medieval serf to think of > the idea of challening his feudal lord. It takes *reallY* > extraordinary events (like starvation) before a people > raised in a feudal mindset can even conceive of challeng- > ing the feudal structure. > > So I don't think "apathy" is the right word to describe > the acceptance of the status quo we see in many Arab > countries. It's more that many of the people really > don't know that there is an alternative quo. >
Not so unlike it has been with people here in FF with the TMorg and Maharishi. There is simply no forum within the meditating community or culture of free dialogue, those are tactically controlled to keep it the way it is <(corruption and all, imbalance of rich and poor and all)>. -Doug in FF To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
