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Michael Redler wrote: > When you Google "white mans burden", you simply end up with a list of > acts committed in the name of...which has grown since Rudyard. > > Today, the motives for hegemony are hidden and given names designed to > confuse people (i.e. "humanitarian intervention"). > > Those who are most confused, swallow this crap hook, line and sinker. > > "We have to help them." > "We have to save them." > "We have to..." > > Even when "they" don't want our help or worse, "they" suffer from it, > we continue for "their" own good. > > Mike > > > > */Bob Molloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: > > Hi y'all, > I'd say Rudyard was laughing (he had a great capacity for > humour) at the misnomer we have made of his "White Man's Burden". > Judging out of context is like shooting fish in a barrel. Kipling > lived and > wrote in a time of Empire, and what he was trying to do was set a > few ground > rules within the context of Empire. For their time, and within the > limits of > the age, the rules had merit. His White Man's Burden was written > in 1899 in > response to the American invasion of the Philippines. His hope was > that > Americans would be humble in their might and sparing of their use > of power. > Written more than a century ago, it is eerily prescient of the present > debacle in Iraq. > > The actual words are: > > Take up the White Man's Burden - > Send forth the best ye breed - > Go bind your sons to exile > To serve your captive's need; > To wait in heavy harness > On fluttered folk and wild - > Your new-caught sullen peoples, > Half devil and half child. > > [snip] > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
