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through the looking glass
Jan. 16th, 2003 10:39 amokay,
one more time on the whole war thing. now i'll be the first to admit it, i'm a liberal. i don't see anything wrong with that. i'm for a lot of whack, left wing ideas like socialized medicine and legalized drug use. i'm not so far out there that i'm in nader land, at least, not yet, and i can be pretty centrist on many ideas. one of them happens to be war. i would like it if we lived in some kind of magic happy land where there was no war and no religion too, just like the man said, but it just ain't happening. i'm a pragmatist, we aren't wired that way. what we are wired for is war. all the little monkies come out of their savannah (or submerged rice fields, depending upon whether or no you think the whole "aquatic ape theory" holds water (pun intended.))anyhow, they come roaring out of the svelte grasslands into some other monkey territory, and they kill all the monkey men of breeding age, mate with all the eligible monkey women, and bingo, all the monkey children bear a striking resmblance to whichever monkey is the current monkey version of genghis khan. scientists have a fancy word for this, biodiversity. too tight a group and you start getting a bloodline like the royals... the family tree starts looking morelike a telephone pole. we can solve this via careful monkey negotiation, and peaceful monkey travel and mixing between monkeys of different tribes, (sound likely?) or monkeys with sticks hitting each other.
our current problem is that we can't use our wondrous brains, which are so versatile and inventive, to turn off this war instinct, and even if we could, chances are likely that the other guy couldn't. so i figure, we will have war, at least, as long as we remain uncivilized little monkies, we will always have war. we will make up lots of excuses, but it all boils down to, monkey see, monkey want, monkey take. (and maybe (and i'm just saying this to sate you in particular Gary,) monkeys trying to stop other monkeys from taking,)
so... given that all of this is monkey stick shaking, i think that the administration is making a grave policy error in regards to korea.
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one more time on the whole war thing. now i'll be the first to admit it, i'm a liberal. i don't see anything wrong with that. i'm for a lot of whack, left wing ideas like socialized medicine and legalized drug use. i'm not so far out there that i'm in nader land, at least, not yet, and i can be pretty centrist on many ideas. one of them happens to be war. i would like it if we lived in some kind of magic happy land where there was no war and no religion too, just like the man said, but it just ain't happening. i'm a pragmatist, we aren't wired that way. what we are wired for is war. all the little monkies come out of their savannah (or submerged rice fields, depending upon whether or no you think the whole "aquatic ape theory" holds water (pun intended.))anyhow, they come roaring out of the svelte grasslands into some other monkey territory, and they kill all the monkey men of breeding age, mate with all the eligible monkey women, and bingo, all the monkey children bear a striking resmblance to whichever monkey is the current monkey version of genghis khan. scientists have a fancy word for this, biodiversity. too tight a group and you start getting a bloodline like the royals... the family tree starts looking morelike a telephone pole. we can solve this via careful monkey negotiation, and peaceful monkey travel and mixing between monkeys of different tribes, (sound likely?) or monkeys with sticks hitting each other.
our current problem is that we can't use our wondrous brains, which are so versatile and inventive, to turn off this war instinct, and even if we could, chances are likely that the other guy couldn't. so i figure, we will have war, at least, as long as we remain uncivilized little monkies, we will always have war. we will make up lots of excuses, but it all boils down to, monkey see, monkey want, monkey take. (and maybe (and i'm just saying this to sate you in particular Gary,) monkeys trying to stop other monkeys from taking,)
so... given that all of this is monkey stick shaking, i think that the administration is making a grave policy error in regards to korea.
( Read more... )
