From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 4½: Darkness in the Cranium
From the desk of Takuan Seiyo on Sun, 2008-12-14 09:54
This is a brief post scriptum to Part 4, warranted by a series of most interesting comments thereto by a Mr. W. Lindsay Wheeler, and counter arguments by other readers, for whose positive comments I am thankful.
History Indicts Us All
From the desk of George Handlery on Sun, 2008-12-14 09:43 
George Handlery about the week that was. The burden of innocence and guilt. History indicts all of us. Europe’s power frightens some Europeans. The challenge that follows from the end of American unilateralism. Jihadists can gain politically – if they know something besides killing. Monarchic lessons and the Korean Question.
1. Condy Rice is appalled that the international community is unable to deal with dictators. Her shock is justified. Any surprise is unwarranted. Most UN members are not democracies. More correctly put, they are democracies in name only. Such as in “The Democratic This or That of Whatever”. Generally, sharks do not attack each other when swimmers are available. The result is tolerance for the intolerable. The illustration is delivered free of charge by the inability of southern Africa’s political organization to treat Mugabe the way his record deserves it and the peril of his subjects demands.
1. Condy Rice is appalled that the international community is unable to deal with dictators. Her shock is justified. Any surprise is unwarranted. Most UN members are not democracies. More correctly put, they are democracies in name only. Such as in “The Democratic This or That of Whatever”. Generally, sharks do not attack each other when swimmers are available. The result is tolerance for the intolerable. The illustration is delivered free of charge by the inability of southern Africa’s political organization to treat Mugabe the way his record deserves it and the peril of his subjects demands.
From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 4: Tribe
From the desk of Takuan Seiyo on Fri, 2008-12-12 11:12
500 years from now, when 26th century archeologists will be slicing through the stratum of the broken remains of Frankfurt or Philadelphia, chips of silicon chips next to bits of Snickers and Big Mac wrappers under mounds of DVD shards, squashed satellite dishes among twisted nipple rings and faded Obama campaign buttons, bases of shattered toilet bowls still bolted to face away from Mecca next to popped air bubble soles still claiming victory for Nike, they will be wandering, what was is that destroyed this civilization?
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