From: Virginia Bowen (vbowen@bowenconsulting.net)
Date: Tue 19 Nov 2002 - 06:23:40 GMT
Well, since I've come out of lurking once in one week, I might as well make
it twice..
Grant, have you read "The Lucifer Principle" by Howard Bloom? This is one
of the points of that book - that there's no point in "helping" as you will
be hated regardless of your actions - your "tribe" is hated for being better
off. Period.
Virginia
Murrieta, CA
"My treasures do not clink together nor glitter. They gleam in the sun and
bray in the night."
-----Original Message-----
Sometimes I think we are naive in trying to help the world at all. Everyone
seems to hate the guy who tries to help. Nobody ever seems able to do it to
the satisfaction of the people being helped. It may be better just to let
them starve or solve their own problems. That may sound callous, but look
at the record of how our past efforts have turned out. I've even read
accounts that blame the U.S. for all the deaths in Kosovo. We did it all
with our bombing raids on the Serb soldiers.
Cheers,
Grant
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