Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00253)

Ian McRae wrote:
> > Today both the United Nations and a greater number of Theosophists seems
> to laugh at the >middle east, while the hail the western (USA generated) way
> of living. I.e. - Fast cars, girls, sex, >glamour, tv, videos, competition,
> stock speculation, Black Jack and the like, fat food, unhealthy >food,
> overabuse, drugs of all sorts, the right to have a number of nuclear bombs,
> and other >dangerous tools.
> 
> Not me ! I abhor American culture, which has destroyed our social
> infrastructure and has imported all that is unhealthy, mentally and
> physically, to my country. Fast cars ? Been there ! Sex ? It's an
> over-rated pastime. I don't speculate of gamble, because someone always
> loses. If not me, then someone else. TV is full of rubbish. Fat food ?
> I'm a vegetarian. Drugs ? Ah go on. 

Government based on powers of government deriving from the people and
not the other way around? Enforcing an end to slavery? Giving equal
rights to women and minorities? Extending rights to people who are not
native to the country? Enforcing freedom of speech and thought? Such
horrible things, for those who would rather live as slaves.

Bart Lidofsky