Re: A time for war.

From: Scott Chase (osteopilus@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat 19 Mar 2005 - 18:10:51 GMT

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    --- Keith Henson <hkhenson@rogers.com> wrote:

    > At 03:49 AM 18/03/05 -0800, Scott Chase wrote:
    >
    >
    > >--- Keith Henson <hkhenson@rogers.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > >
    > > > [Posted this on another list, but since it
    > mentions
    > > > memes . . . .]
    > > >
    > > > Re several threads on this list, I make a case
    > > > rooted in the stone age that
    > > > a lot of the populations of the world are either
    > now
    > > > stressed (such as
    > > > those who dropped out of the middle class in the
    > US)
    > > > or are anticipating
    > > > the world getting worse.
    > > >
    > > > Exceptions are the Chinese, and a few other
    > > > countries where economic
    > > > conditions are improving and look like they will
    > for
    > > > a while.
    > > >
    > >Not sure how you're excepting the Chinese. Better
    > keep
    > >an eye on recent news wrt Taiwan. Could become a
    > "time
    > >for war" sans xenophobia if Taiwan asserts its
    > >indepedence as a sovereign state.
    >
    > snip
    >
    > When Tiawan and China go to war without first having
    > economic problems,
    > falling income per capita, or some other situation
    > that make the future
    > look bleak, then my prognostication will fail.
    >
    I hope it doesn't fail, especially in this case. But I consider it my sacred duty to look for possible holes in your generalizations or cases where they don't apply.
    >
    > Making noise doesn't count as war.
    >
    Yet it's still a conflict nonetheless. And since Taiwanese and Chinese are relatively homogenous wrt cultural and historic backgrounds "xenophobic memes" wouldn't play much of a role in the islander versus mainlander conflict would they?

     

                    
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