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Another View On The Problem Of Is And Global Security
Came across this and thought it was worth sharing:
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Above all I think the points made by the Dalai Lama about working together to avoid wars is worth lots of consideration.
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Above all I think the points made by the Dalai Lama about working together to avoid wars is worth lots of consideration.
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Pious, platitudinous and wrong in my judgment, Mosaic.
Now let's take this remark:
"Svejk: I think the DL is suggesting that conventional military approaches won't resolve the problem, either of IS or of other problems, for example fundamentalist christianity as manifested in the south of the USA (my examples, not DLs)".
It's a "violence solves nothing" bumper sticker, isn't it?
Nazism was a problem solved by what? Please answer in your own words, or those of the Dalai Lama.
Now let's take this remark:
"Svejk: I think the DL is suggesting that conventional military approaches won't resolve the problem, either of IS or of other problems, for example fundamentalist christianity as manifested in the south of the USA (my examples, not DLs)".
It's a "violence solves nothing" bumper sticker, isn't it?
Nazism was a problem solved by what? Please answer in your own words, or those of the Dalai Lama.
I googled as much of the quote as could fit but the only exact match was the sig of some racist called "raman" on a forum somewhere.
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Searching the tail end of the quote found this story (07/11/11)
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but the full-length quote does not appear. Svejk, I'd be grateful to learn where you sourced this?
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Searching the tail end of the quote found this story (07/11/11)
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but the full-length quote does not appear. Svejk, I'd be grateful to learn where you sourced this?
Thanks, Svejk.
And here's the original wording. 10 March 1997.
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(I had to chop out the bracketed inserts to make the search work correctly). It's about halfway down the page. (I read the whole thing. You don't need to).
And here's the original wording. 10 March 1997.
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(I had to chop out the bracketed inserts to make the search work correctly). It's about halfway down the page. (I read the whole thing. You don't need to).
Thanks for the original link, Hypognosis
Svejk - the quote in the original context has the DL describing what China is doing and regretting both it and any violence it provokes. I can't see that it's tone or content differs from the Deutsche Welle link in the OP. He specifically talking about Tibet and China in 1997, and about the current IS crisis in 2015.
Vetuste - yes, analogies to the outbreak of WW2 are legitimate, but let's also take on board how communications have been revolutionised since then, and how they are used in crises. Most people in Europe had no way of knowing what Hitler was up to exactly - so no means of spiking his guns before open war broke out - and so were ready and willing to fight a war.
Does the crisis occurring now in the 21st century have to follow the same pattern?
Svejk - the quote in the original context has the DL describing what China is doing and regretting both it and any violence it provokes. I can't see that it's tone or content differs from the Deutsche Welle link in the OP. He specifically talking about Tibet and China in 1997, and about the current IS crisis in 2015.
Vetuste - yes, analogies to the outbreak of WW2 are legitimate, but let's also take on board how communications have been revolutionised since then, and how they are used in crises. Most people in Europe had no way of knowing what Hitler was up to exactly - so no means of spiking his guns before open war broke out - and so were ready and willing to fight a war.
Does the crisis occurring now in the 21st century have to follow the same pattern?
I wonder if they teach modern schoolchildren exactly what it was like for soldier age men when their sole sources of information were
1) Rumours, in the workplace.
2) Rumours, in the local pub.
3) Newspapers and magazines.
4) Wall posters.
5) Radio / crystal set / pal with same
Cross off #5 for WWI and before.
"The enemy" is up to something. War is looming. Not signing up means betraying your pals, white feather in the post and… no prospect of a sex life, frankly.
No individual could 'order' any other to join the forces but societal mass-willpower, in a way, could - and did. A very curious phenomenon in its own right.
But we are not a 'hive mind'. Opinion formers steered the newspapers and the Government did the wall posters.
These days, social media is in the mix of driving mass opinion and anyone with money to burn can run a poster campaign. A handful of media moguls has control of everything else.
Today's Sun cover has been blasted by social media, since about 1am.
The row will all be over by the time I wake up.
1) Rumours, in the workplace.
2) Rumours, in the local pub.
3) Newspapers and magazines.
4) Wall posters.
5) Radio / crystal set / pal with same
Cross off #5 for WWI and before.
"The enemy" is up to something. War is looming. Not signing up means betraying your pals, white feather in the post and… no prospect of a sex life, frankly.
No individual could 'order' any other to join the forces but societal mass-willpower, in a way, could - and did. A very curious phenomenon in its own right.
But we are not a 'hive mind'. Opinion formers steered the newspapers and the Government did the wall posters.
These days, social media is in the mix of driving mass opinion and anyone with money to burn can run a poster campaign. A handful of media moguls has control of everything else.
Today's Sun cover has been blasted by social media, since about 1am.
The row will all be over by the time I wake up.
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