Re: I agree with you spike, but.... Archived Message
Posted by turtleman on June 18, 2019, 12:35 pm, in reply to "I agree with you spike, but...."
I see you've taken to heart Chomsky's Year 501. But I'm sure you know the "West" is several thousand years old, and is an astoundingly rich cultural heritage of intellect, religion, science, and literature. So we have to be clear, and acknowledge that the excesses of power - particularly with the rise of Industry and Central Banking - coupled with excesses of revolt (i.e. the French Revolution) is, in a nutshell, the whole dynamic of Apocalypse. Often, I get the sense that leftists can only see one side of the dynamic and, in their self-righteous radicalism, tend towards enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friendism, ends-justify-meanism, and throw-baby-out-with-bathwaterism. The hardest human pattern to break is that age-old habit of revenge which always turns is into the spitting image of our enemy. turtleman
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