I suppose any positives we can take from this is to accept that, despite having iPods, the Internet and Miley Cyrus, Western civilisation is still a very embryonic, somewhat primitive stage. If 1 is the cave man and 10 in Utopia, we are probably on a 2 or a 3 at the moment, so humankind will have to bear a few more millennia of wars, inequalities and even catastrophic destruction before it eventually wakes up to the fact that we are all one consciousness and the only way to move forward and survive is for our individuals egos and desires to be surrendered in favour of something much more worthwhile.
However, Choamky unfortunately kinds of undermines the whole point of his article (ie The Man Don’t give a Castlemaine XXXX) by referring to England in his bit about Adam Smith when, one assumes, he means UK. A bit like Gore Vidal – a leftie on paper, but in practice an utterly hypocritical, pompous popinjay – much like the rest of us.
It does I think in an article of this nature, which is about the pomposity of stronger nations dominating smaller ones (ie an American failing to recognise that the northern part of Britain is called Scotland). But then it sounds like he’s technically right in this instance, so that’s OK I suppose.
Apart from clarification of policy anyone who paid any attention to Rwanda or The Congo would have sussed this.
The real question is: what can be done about it?
I suppose any positives we can take from this is to accept that, despite having iPods, the Internet and Miley Cyrus, Western civilisation is still a very embryonic, somewhat primitive stage. If 1 is the cave man and 10 in Utopia, we are probably on a 2 or a 3 at the moment, so humankind will have to bear a few more millennia of wars, inequalities and even catastrophic destruction before it eventually wakes up to the fact that we are all one consciousness and the only way to move forward and survive is for our individuals egos and desires to be surrendered in favour of something much more worthwhile.
However, Choamky unfortunately kinds of undermines the whole point of his article (ie The Man Don’t give a Castlemaine XXXX) by referring to England in his bit about Adam Smith when, one assumes, he means UK. A bit like Gore Vidal – a leftie on paper, but in practice an utterly hypocritical, pompous popinjay – much like the rest of us.
Mistaken references to the wrong political entity do not undermine the entire article in any way.
However, it just so happens he is entirely correct when referring to England, as England is what Adam Smith was referring to in The Wealth of Nations.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/wealth-of-nations/book04/ch08.htm
It does I think in an article of this nature, which is about the pomposity of stronger nations dominating smaller ones (ie an American failing to recognise that the northern part of Britain is called Scotland). But then it sounds like he’s technically right in this instance, so that’s OK I suppose.
Another interesting talk about why health care reform is suddenly on the agenda after decades of popular support.
http://www.zcommunications.org/zvideo/3233
Appropriate that this was posted on Zcommunications. I started watching it, then Zzzzzzzzzzzz…..