"...[A] handshake and two signatures can never be enough.
There is no quick fix, no kiss and make up opportunity. Dealing with the genetic[?! Western "regimes" are in control of evolution?!] and psychological legacies of a brutal past is a spiritual thing. It cannot be enforced by agreement, predicted by science, or enabled by logic."
This guy's saying that free people making free agreements, personally can't get past the evils that others have committed? Of course they can't, when it's not they, personally, who are making the agreements, but others who are claiming the right to do so on their behalf.
"It needs imagination, sensitivity, humility and all the virtues
which cannot be gained through reading or conjecture. And maybe, in
place of the wild war music it needs the kind of mantra which Desmond
Tutu so winsomely taught his hurting compatriots:
Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death."
That's all true, but The Government (whether World, Regional, National or local) can't do that for you. You have to do it yourself. Government can only protect your right to do so. By doing so, it divides and conquers the factions of Society.
Posted by: Old Whig at February 18, 2005 07:10 AM
February 18, 2005 07:10 AM? Where is this guy? I've got 11:10 PM on the 17th.
