whoa nellie!

Murthy Yenamandra yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Thu Mar 6 13:08:51 CST 1997


MantaRay at aol.com writes:
> Doesn't the one seem to lead inevitably to the other here? It's because of
> these "peoples" inability to recognize mythologies of domination that they
> are getting their asses wiped off the planet? We can cry about it all we
> want, but this is the course of Human History, like it or not. That, I think,
> was the assertion. Not really very new. So what's the problem? 

The problem is that we wipe their asses off the planet and then turn
around and claim that wiping other peoples' asses off the planet is
inherent human nature, instead of our own culture's misguided tendency.
Which means that there is no hope ever of us learning that we can stop
wiping other peoples' asses off the planet (because it's human nature
and we can't help but be this way).

Murthy

-- 
Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
    "I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time can not decay
     I'm junk, but I'm holding up this little wild bouquet
     Democracy is coming to the USA" - Leonard Cohen



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