Bush and Gandhi - Humanity Comes to a Fork in the Road

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

by Robert C. Koehler

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0303-36.htm

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Bush’s visit to the memorial is sure to generate enormous protest, as well it should, but I think it also presents a rare opportunity to bring Gandhi’s philosophy of “satyagraha” — truth-seeking, self-sacrifice and nonviolent resistance — to bear on the world Bush has wrought.

While the president and his supporters don’t dare mock Gandhi, they take endless delight in mocking, in their self-satisfied ignorance and selective blindness, everything he stood for.

Yet as far as I can tell, human society has never been at a more crucial divide over how to proceed into its own future, and Bush kneeling cynically at Gandhi’s memorial — in the midst of a trip whose purpose is to finalize a deal beefing up India’s nuclear technology — symbolizes this juncture with unbearable clarity.

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[newscott]

1. Bush is more like a moribund evolutionary offshoot.

[SongOfTheRayne]

2. How dare he?

How dare that bastard associate himself with such a great visionary of peace and humanitarianism? It's just like how he compared himself to Martin Luther King during the State of the Union adress...sickening. Oh, well, maybe he thinks that he IS following their philosophy....because, in his mind, War is Peace! Freedom is Slavery!

[Amonester]

4. And Justice is Torture! - eom

[SongOfTheRayne]

8. It's truley sickening.....

some of the people who live near me don't even think it's happening....we need another Ghandi...

[tom_paine]

3. The fork in the road was 2000

Perhaps I am being too Amerocentric, but it may well turn out that was THE Point of No Return, the moemtn when humanity chose extinction.

Because it is quite clear that Totalitarianism and BushPutinism (the latter is merely the newest branch of the former) are on the rise and darkenss is covering the world, maybe for the last time (though I still expect the human race to keep kicking, most miserably for a coupel millenia still until the last of us die out).

Maybe not, maybe so, but I still stand by that the Bush Coup D'Etat may well have represented humanity choosing species death over the possibility of going to the stars.

Now, of course, no one is going to the stars. Our only hope for THAt as a species, I think, is to let the coming dark Age run itself out and wait for the next Reneissance.

Problem is, with the environment collapsing, extinction might come before that 1000 years or so we will have to wait.

[Amonester]

5. Global warming, or/(and?) WWIII (nuclear winter) will end...

this "cycle" of this species (only micro-organisms and fish in ultra-deep waters will survive, and Evolution will be like starting over from that point on).

This species will have amused itself to death.
It's already beyond the "point-of-no-return."

WWIII (nuclear winter) = 5 to 7 years.
Global warming (end of the food chain) = 15 to 20 years.

The Bu$h Coup d'État made one of these two (or both) a certainty. :cry:

[Ben Ceremos]

6. Optimism

makes a better fuel for accessing the future. I f we do what we can, the world will start to change...possibly for the better. Let's go!!!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

7. Agreed! And optimism tends to be...

...contagious, just as excessive pessimism, defeatism and discouragement are. It is not my experience that tough problems ever get solved by negative thinking. Taking our country back is an immensely tough problem and defeatist thinking will only make it that much harder.