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Re: George Bush has legitimised terrorism
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Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:26:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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I will definitely agree that Canada is as dependant on ff as most. However,
we are working on lessening the environmental impact, vis a vis Kyoto and
other such incentives. We don’t have it ‘right’ yet, nor will we ever
possibly attain ‘right’.
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Just enough to be holier than thou, I take it? :-)
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If someone was perpetually screaming “You’ve got it wrong!”, I’d say, “Hey
Chicken Little! The sky ain’t falling” I think I tempered my comments with
the idea that I like much of what America does. If you didn’t pick up on
that point, eh... ;)
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So....you think I’m wrong? ;-)
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It’s like that quotation from ‘Blues Brothers”--“Oh we have both kinds of
music--country *and* western” as if there are no other kinds of music.
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Someone missed the joke...
(dang, I finally have to skip the smiley)
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I got the joke--I was referring to the actual character’s blind arrogance--she
thinks there are only two types of music and didn’t have the ability to see
outside her own little world to realize there might be other types.
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“Oh, we have both kinds of chips on our shoulders here in Canada: arrogance and
self-righteousness.” Someone missed the joke.... :-)
The greater
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joke is that the character will probably never realize that there are other
types of music beyond ‘country *and* western’ unless someone points it out to
her. The ‘ensconsed in my own little world’ mind trap is something we should
work towards eliminating. These fracteous times call for a greater
understanding of the world and events happening around us, not a narrower
worldview--“We got it right!” kinda narrows the view down to ‘Us and Them’, in
which the “Us” are right” and if them ain’t with “Us”, then “them”’s
invariably against “Us” and therefore, “Them”’s all wrong, as pointed out with
the US policy with the war in Iraq. The greater joke here is that “Us” (or
U.S., which also works on a different level) is that all the “right” reasons
for the war turned out to be completely false. Now democracy isn’t even
trying to be attained, but ‘US friendly Iraqis’ are being appointed for the
turnover.
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Well, heck, otherwise those wacky Iraqis might democratically elect religious
fanatics! The kind that will want to say prayers in schools, but not
Protestant ones. The nerve!
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An ironic choice of words: If there is cacophony, by definition there isn’t
harmony. And clearly you haven’t been to southern california which speaks
something like 140 different languages. I’ll see your multi-culturalism and
raise it by 100. :-)
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Hence the ‘Sometimes, to be sure, there’s cacophany’.
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Translated: “There is harmony...except when there isn’t.”
Dang, the Wachowski Brothers will probably include that line in The Matrix
Regurgitated.
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Spell it out real
slow-like--If there is diversity and harmony in society, there may be times
when there may be cacophany. Work thru it.
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One.....hundred.....forty....languages.....-.....
didn’t......you.....understand......that.....perhaps.....your......lecture.....was.....way......off-base?...
Oh......wait.....that’s......why......you.......cut.......that....part.....out....so.....you......could.......still......pretend......to.....the.....moral.....high......ground.....and......be........condescending.
Slow enough for you this time, eh?
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) I would never presume such :) Here's an analogy--there are those who notice that the emperor has no clothes and think to themselves, "Well, that emperor is pretty dense to be walking around without any clothes--look at how much better I am (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I will definitely agree that Canada is as dependant on ff as most. However, we are working on lessening the environmental impact, vis a vis Kyoto and other such incentives. We don't have it 'right' yet, nor will we ever possibly attain (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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