Message-Id: <10722.125339@fatcity.com> From: "Eric D. Pierce" Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 16:16:51 -0800 Subject: Re: you are insufferably sanctimonious On 26 Dec 2000, at 14:00, Tom Gabriel (rich geld?) wrote: From: "Tom Gabriel" To: PierceED@csus.edu Subject: you are insufferably sanctimonious Date sent: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 14:00:07 > >>Main problems in the USA: the social alienation/ fragmentation/ > atomization, & decline of family and community life. Much of this > is a result of "conspicuous consumption", excessive materialistic > values, rootlessness , etc. > > Not really. More likely it is the result of globalists like yourself who > correctly see racism, classism, sexism, religious discrimination, and > cultural parochialism in traditonally evolved communities - and think that > the "solution" is to destroy diversity by destroying "traditional > communities" rather than learning to live with the isms of human nature. > > rich geld Tom/rich/whoever, All the unrepentant (post-60s) leftists I know accuse me of being a "traitor" for having taken a objective look at the validity of "conservative" perspectives. Conservative perspectives confirm the need for ethical base(s) and creative/dynamic energy arising from diverse ethnic/religious communities to offset the tendency toward monopolistic "leftist oligarchies" within social systems. eg, see Jurgen Habermas (and Seymour Lipset:) http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/extensions/sp98/contents.html (same for the mirror opposite, eg, dominator hierarchies via