Friday, February 06, 2009
Watching nature channels it is striking that animals mix only with individuals of their own kind. Carnivores do not tolerate any other species or member of a different clan within their territories. Thus on the serengeti lions will kill any other carnivore such as leopard, cheetah or hyena unlucky enough to get too close. Lions of one pride will attack and kill a lion belonging to a different pride if caught within their territory. Herbivores of different species do congregate in large numbers but stay strictly separate. Thus wildebeest and zebras migrate together and spend entire lives in close proximity but do not interbreed. They are four legged, eat grass and have similar life cycles. They are born together, migrate together, eat together and live their entire lives next to each other but look different and never mix. Humans from different parts of the world look completely different. Whereas animals live basic lives which are very similar humans are also totally different culturally. We have different languages, dress code, eating habits, religion and manners which make us more different than a zebra is to a gazelle. Politicians keep lecturing us as to how we are all brothers and sisters but the truth is that culture, language and religion divide us much more than appearance divides the animal world. Thus the clash of civilisations. Glib rhetoric about a post racial world after Obama's victory seems stupid to me.
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I have some real issues with some, indeed, a LOT of the things on your blog, Jethu. To be quite honest, all people are inherently the same (refer Shylock's speech - "does a Jew not cry..."), Obama does seem to be trying (although his focus IS purely US-centric), and six rockets by the Hezbollah fired into Israel does is a very small thing compared to the fact that the Palestinians are trapped within their own land (even assuming that Israel is a valid state, the conditions that they impose on the Palestininians even during the times of apparent peace are appalling). I would love to argue the same with you sometime.
Precisely but humans do not think so and speech makes rabble rousing easy. All the Arabs have to do is to tell the jews that they are safe. Who knows what will happen in time. After all jews predate moslems and a lot converted to islam after Mohammed.
The fact that the largest use of the internet is in pornography but that DOES NOT take away from the fact that it has been the only forum not capable of being absolutely controlled (aside from disallowing it, of course) and has become the largest resource for FREE SPEECH.
Similarly, the misuse of the right of speech (possibly divine, if you know what i mean) does not mean that the people carried away by nonsense should be exterminated. Propaganda has existed ever since people began claiming sovereignty over one another, whether by moral or military means.
For my part, I just cannot bring myself to believe that the answer lies in repeating more of the same and expecting different results. I mean, after the Muslims, who? Probably us pagan Hindus...
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