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Date Posted: 09:53:09 06/17/04 Thu
Author: mt. healthy mountaineer
Subject: Re: BS or not
In reply to: mvd 's message, "Re: BS or not" on 16:50:03 06/16/04 Wed

NC:"... when you come back from the Third World to the West - the U.S. in particular - you are struck by the narrowing of thought and understanding, the limited nature of legitimate discussion, the separation of people from each other. It's startling how stultifying it feels, since our opportunities are so vastly greater here."

"The goal is a society in which the basic social unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door is hungry, it's not your problem. If the retired couple next door invested their assets badly and are now starving, that's not your problem either."


MVD:I am not relating hubris to the local situation. If you reread the former posts you will see that I was trying to say that our arrogance is what causes our overall ignorance and narrow mindedness. This has nothing to do with localistic issues. It is nationwide. I was not relating this to our unwillingness to help others. These two thoughts were separate, with separate causes.


Now I see what you are saying. I thought you were relating everything to the second quote, but you were merely referring to them in reverse order.

Sure, I have no problem with that thought, except that I believe that most every culture is narrow-minded and that Chomsky suffers from the same problem that James Fenimore Cooper suffered from. Cooper romanticized the savage - he was more noble and more pure since he was not civilized (at least not in an American understanding of it). Chomsky suffers from the same when it comes to non-Western and especially non-American peoples, in my opinion.(he may be proving his own point by being narrow-minded as to his view of the West! - ugh -that is irony that hurts my brain since it proves his point that we are narrow-minded by him thinking that he is broad-minded enough to see it, but how can he see it if he is a product of the West and is he really so broad-minded if he cannot see that he is narrow-minded?...)

Also, if Noam Chomsky were on a train leaving from San Diego travelling at 62 miles per hour and....

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