From: dleschin@FEDS66.PRIME.COM (Dmitri Leschiner)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Dialectics of agenda: M**lu reveals his own!
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:41:44 GMT
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han@anadolu.michigan.com (hasan.b.mutlu) writes:
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Then what is it that makes America and the (so-called) Western states
so nervous whenever the possibility is raised that Arab or Islamic
states will acquire nuclear weapons? How about sharing?

Sorry, but I do not believe that G-d put us on this earth to be helpless
creatures condemned to an evil fate. I think 'He' believes in us.

At this point in time, religion no longer serves this purpose.

Hence, it is up to us to create our own 'Heaven' and 'Hell' in our lives
on this earth.

For instance, activism is a movement
that lays stress on action. It is used to create an awareness about
a cause and to advance it through forceful yet benign means. And activism
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can be used in many areas, most common are religion, politics and the
social issues.

However, if a movement is deprived of a philosophy, mere
taking to the streets can not create a lasting effect. In such
actions intellect is absent, emotions are mercurial and sentiment
rides high. These conditions make for a chaotic situation where
orderly throngs turn to a destructive mob in a short time. Sounds
familiar?

The history repeats itself.

From time immemorial history has
been full of activists. And early activists were mostly in religion
and social causes.

In this behaviorist era
of 'Disney Rock,' reality is often whatever is showing on the media
screen.

Wow. Being a 'human engineer' might be a blow to my self-image.


Ideas and opinions should appear in black and white, because the pen
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is the mightiest of all weapons. Nothing can beat the power of the
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written words.


Ideas and opinions should appear 'in' black and white;
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they are not necessarily black and white. See above.
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As I indicated earlier, it is a dog-eat-dog world of all-against-all, where
ethnic and racial groups fight forever to capture and maintain their 'purity'
by endless demands of territorial adjustments, and endless and ever new
claims on moral and cultural superiority. In such a world, 'human rights'
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is a very important policy tool to badger the other fellow with. In this
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'brave new world' there is no 'conflict resolution' as such.
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So the future is not what it used to be.

What puzzles one is that in their constant smear campaign they are
going smack against the very teaching of Jesus Christ. How come?
How do the 'Fathers of the Orthodox Church' sleep at night when
they preach every weekend from their pulpits a hatred as black as
their capes while Jesus talked about nothing but 'Love' for humanity
and compassion in the face of adversity? Why are they Christian
enough to hate but not Christian enough to love?

With due respect for their erudition, let me remind them what Jesus
said to Christians in 'The Holy Bi-le:' 'Love your enemies, do good
to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for
those who mistreat you. If anyone hits you on one cheek, let him hit
the other one too. If someone takes your coat, let him have your
shirt as well. Give to everyone who asks you for something, and when
someone takes what is yours do not ask for it back. Do for others
just what you want them to do for you.' (Luke 6:27-31)

Is G-d confused? Well, it's going to be an awfully lonely 'Heaven.'
And how will they like their 'Heaven' knowing that all the Muslims
are suffering eternal misery in 'Hell?'

So you might wonder why so many people still believe in this nonsense.
Because the 'Fathers of the Orthodox Church' said so.

I guess that the workers of the world did not unite but personal
computers did.

Probably the best paradigm of the 'new world order' "thing" is represented
by the Disney theme parks. The mouse that roars billions in cash receipts
becomes the voice of a new global generation that wears the same designer
jeans in Lisbon and Lima, watches the same MTV in Los Angeles and Cairo,
and carries an instant conversation through personal computer bulletin
boards in Istanbul and Tokyo.

The 21st Century unfolds at such a blinding pace that we do not even
yet have a vocabulary to correctly identify the emerging social forms.

The everyday forces that shape our lives (politics) and our reactions
to these forces (culture) are merely manifestations of the same thing.
To isolate what has become known as 'culture' in the West with another
abstracted term, 'politics,' is to play with semantics. Culture has
historically represented the everyday lives of a social group. This
isn't something you think about, you just accept it in the way you
accept the fact that George Washington was the first president of
America.

The concept of 'citizenship,' a concept derided by the old school
Marxists as a 'bourgeois' concept hiding the 'exploitation of
masses,' suddenly looks light years ahead of the new terrorists'
exclusive reliance of ethnic homogeneity. As a dear friend once put
it, citizenship meant an order wherein people of different ethnicity
and backgrounds could voluntarily come together and live in peace
by observing the laws of the land. An illusion?

The American media is one of most superficial attributes and
legends. While each of us has formed conceptions about certain
people and events, it is unlikely that many of those opinions
developed from personal experience.

For most of us television, rather than print media, is virtually
our only vivid source of information about these people and events
which play a major role in shaping how we perceive the world while
it fosters an illusion of certainty.

Heisenberg's 'Uncertainty Principle' of quantum physics reincarnated
in the land of Disneyrock as the democratic cynicism that questioned
the traditional separation between 'reporting' and 'that which is
reported.'

What about those 'black hearts under black capes,' though?

Hasan B-) Mutlu

                     'Kill Turks and Kurds wherever you find them
                      and in whatever circumstances you find them.
                      Turkish children also should be killed as
                      they form a danger to the Armenian nation.'
                                     (Hamparsum Boyadjian - 1914)
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