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Re: East-West and intra-culture clarifications
Re: Central Asian question is multi-sided: Tibet -- DWA Post Reply Top of the thread Forum
Posted by: Angus Cunningham
04/10/2008, 19:17:39

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DWA: "Are you questioning the outcome of WWII in the Pacific, Angus?"

No. Nor can I see any point in doing so. I simply look at the numbers (population, income/capita) and their trends and note that the economic centre of gravity has been steadily shifting westward with some short-term eddies to its long-term westward passage.

Westerners have also been historically cruel to each other. Arguing about the East-West preponderance of cruelty might conceivably lead us to conclude we have been less cruel, but given our greater per capita resources, we damn well should be MUCH less cruel than we are. Proof of this is that the rising economic tide of the Clinton years was much more equitable than the suck-upward economics (but pretend it is trickle down) of both the Reagan and Bush years. Moreover, the US's per capita incarceration rates are so scandalously high that one wonders why any American has the gall to claim moral superiority over any other way of life.

I will not trouble myself to give the TT any examples of right-wing blinkered newsomercials. Too many have already been provided.

My solution to all this is to move upstream to language, the inaccurate use, both in the articulation and in the interpretation, of which is, I believe, almost invariably a lost opportunity to find more equitable relationships in the course of our individual and community lives. There I find very exciting cause, albeit rather unfashionably original, for hope in the idea of truth exchange in verbal conversation by means of the principles of empathically authentic dialogue aided by some new suggestions for verbal behaviour. But, and this is where I need every TTers' help, my presentation of my ideas is not meeting with serious introspection and it is costly of my time and money to put it before TTers. Consequently I have been feeling I must move on unless I can get more tangible evidence of a more attentive and reciprocal response from the climate creators/managers at the TT. what's this

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