So true.Unlike many Americans, I never thought September 11, 2001 was a GREAT tragedy: a tragedy, yes, but not even remotely comparable to the Spanish Inquisition, indigenous genocide, slavery, Hitler’s holocaust, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or Stalin’s GULAG prisons. Those Americans who claimed that “everything changed” were innocent of experience and ignorant of history.
"In the post-meditative experience become a child of illusion" is a slogan from the Tibetan mind training tradition. We engage the world as we experience it all the while realizing that reality is not as it seems to be.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Perspective
Here's part of a comment I found on Common Dreams :
Depends. How do you rate human lives that approx 3000 on home turf might justify how-many elsewhere?
ReplyDeleteOK, so I was initially somewhat perturbed when it happened, rather on the lookout for something dodgy happening over here (especially as I was in London at the time)... but it was only a matter of hours before I noticed W injecting excessive "patriotism" into his rhetoric, playing the "victim" card to drum-up nationalist support. It would be well worth digging back through Sky News articles to see it.