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Re: Israel is Losing
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:31:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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but when I try to think of counterexamples, I can’t.
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I don’t mean to be flip about this very serious issue, but such is the nature of
conquest. People of other cultures may not automatically see the advantages of
another way of life -- in fact those supposed advantages may be mitigated by
generally obvious disadvantages, obvious to members of other cultures. Of
course, in another culture the very ideas we hold near and dear may be only
partially understood or understood through some kind of logical inversion.
It may be a little dated, but here it is again...
Shakespeare in the Bush
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/idris/Essays/Shakes_in_Bush.htm
edit: the conclusion:
“Sometime,” concluded the old man, gathering his ragged toga about him, “you
must tell us some more stories of your country. We, who are elders, will
instruct you in their true meaning, so that when you return to your own land
your elders will see that you have not been sitting in the bush, but among those
who know things and who have taught you wisdom.”
-- Hop-Frog
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Message is in Reply To:
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| I found this interesting... (URL) not sure I agree with this, viscerally... "The only places where a Western culture has successfully transplanted itself are those where great population pressure and genocidal methods were used to extirpate the (...) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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