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cause Peace is boring and violence ain't no myth (as the Rocket says.
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Blood Meridian or two guys talking about enlightenment? which would u choose

rich

On 7/27/09, Campbel Morgan <campbelmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> TED is cool.
> Pinker on Violence. History teaches us to study genocide amd mass
> murder and war and violence. Don't know why. The old, so we don't
> repeat it doesn't hold water. Maybe we should study the history of
> peace and the myth of violence.
>
> http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:29 PM, rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Tore Rye Andersen<torerye at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> If my idea of a "World Historical Project" is Eurocentric,
>>> it is because the world's history of the past couple-three hundred years
>>> has, sad
>>> to say, largely been dictated by old, corrupted Yurrup, and in the 20th
>>> century by
>>> America. Those historical cusps may have originated in Europe, but they
>>> have had
>>> major consequences for the rest of the world, as I'm sure you wouldn't
>>> deny.
>>> Those three novels primarily describe the march of Modernity and what it
>>> has
>>> been doing to the globe (and what it has forced out of existence). A-and
>>> where
>>> would you say Modernity originates? Look it up, it's in the history
>>> books.
>> _____
>> where does the Japanese co-prosperity sphere fit in--unless you
>> consider Japan being a westernized country in the early 20th century
>> which I argue it wasn't. not disagreeing mind you, about the
>> infection's origins and the awful scale of waste and destruction and
>> horror
>>
>> Rich
>>
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