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Miguel Vigil [1]
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>> Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all in five days,
>> and all less than six thousand years ago; and if thou believest it
>> not, in a sling shalt thou find thy hindermost quarters
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>> Likewise God took the dust of the ground, and the slime of the Sea
>> and the scum of the earth and formed Man therefrom; and breathed the
>> breath of life right in his face. And he became Free to Choose.
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>> And God made a Marketplace eastward of Eden, in which the man was
>> free to play. And this was the Free Play of the Marketplace.
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>> And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow four trees: the Tree
>> of Life, and the Liberty Tree, and the Pursuit of Happiness Tree,
>> and the Tree of the Knowledge of Sex.
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>> And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, This is my Law, which is
>> called the Law of Supply and Demand. Investeth thou in the trees of
>> Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, and thou shalt make for
>> thyself a fortune. For what fruit thou eatest
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Sat, 16 July 2005 09:33 |
Miguel Vigil [1]
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violence.’ Thus it makes no sense to resort to violence,
since reason and conflict resolution can convince even
a bin Laden to come to the table. That most evil has
ended tragically and most good has resumed through
armed struggle — whether in Germany, Japan, and
Italy or Panama, Belgrade, and Kabul — is irrelevant.
Apparently on some past day, sophisticated Westerners,
in their infinite wisdom and morality, transcended
age-old human nature, and as a reward were given
a pass from the smelly, dirty old world of the past
six millennia.
The third restraint is multiculturalism, or the idea that
all social practices are of equal merit. Who are we to
generalize that the regimes and fundamentalist sects
of the Middle East result in economic backwardness,
intolerance of religious and ethnic minorities, gender
apartheid, racism, homophobia, and patriarchy? Being
different from the West is never being worse.
These tenets in various forms are not merely found
in the womb of the universities, but filter down into
our popular culture, grade schools, and national
political discourse — and make it hard to fight a
war against stealthy enemies who proclaim constant
and shifting grievances. If at tim
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