w i thompson ...vs chumpski
Jon Ford
jonmfordster@hotmail.com
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:55:20 -0800
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<P>Well, Bob, thanks for recommending an out of print book written about 13 or 14 years ago-- most of us aren't going to rush down to buy it, even at the used bookstores, Thompson seems to be a guy you'd like, because he supported the Gulf War as a way of bringing "fractured cultures" together in one big sticky ball newage/ new world culture, and I'm sure he'd think the War on Afghistan and Bin Laden in Particular (WABLP) is peachy. If this is neoliberalism, I'll stick with Chomsky!</P>
<P>Jon<BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>>From: "telebob x" <TELEBOB98@HOTMAIL.COM>
<DIV></DIV>>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: w i thompson ...vs chumpski
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:09:44 +0000
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<DIV></DIV>>neoliberalism anyone?
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<DIV></DIV>>America's esoteric destiny seems to be one of breaking down all the
<DIV></DIV>>cultures
<DIV></DIV>>of the world in preparation for a new global culture that will
<DIV></DIV>>become
<DIV></DIV>>humanity's second nature. The Muslims, whose genius was born in the
<DIV></DIV>>Middle
<DIV></DIV>>Ages, have a point when they call America "the Great Satan," for
<DIV></DIV>>this second
<DIV></DIV>>nature is so artificial, so opposite to anything that a traditional
<DIV></DIV>>person
<DIV></DIV>>would wish to call cultural or natural, that it appears on the
<DIV></DIV>>horizon of
<DIV></DIV>>the human as something inhuman, monstrous, and evil. (113)
<DIV></DIV>>William Irwin Thompson, The American Replacement of Nature
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<DIV></DIV>>America's critical role in the planetization of humanity does seem
<DIV></DIV>>to be
<DIV></DIV>>that of the catalytic enzyme that breaks down all the traditional
<DIV></DIV>>cultures
<DIV></DIV>>of the world, be they Asiatic, Islamic, or European. With Disneyland
<DIV></DIV>>in
<DIV></DIV>>Paris and Tokyo, the United States is well on its way to dissolving
<DIV></DIV>>all the
<DIV></DIV>>world cultures, and I do not think any nativistic revolt of Islam
<DIV></DIV>>will
<DIV></DIV>>succeed in stopping it any more than Marxist-Leninism did. (79)
<DIV></DIV>>William Irwin Thompson, The American Replacement of Nature
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