Behind Gaza: Is moderation dead? A personal view | Defend Democracy Press

Behind Gaza: Is moderation dead? A personal view | Defend Democracy Press

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An extract from one of my published papers:

It is hardly an earth-shattering revelation to state that if the essence of human relations is based on human characteristics, then so are inter-state relations. However much international relations theorists try to create neat, clinical and Procrustean models divorced from the blood and guts realities of living together, it is to primary written sources that we must turn to understand how atavism, insecurity, fear, pride, anger, greed, ambition, lust, but also humaneness, thoughtfulness and love are the determining factors of relationships. This is particularly apparent in the ideas of Guicciardini and Macchiavelli (even if the former lacked the public amorality of the latter).

As Lin Yutang wrote in 1938, putting human affairs into exact formulae shows a lack of sense of humour and therefore a lack of wisdom. More devastatingly, he wrote that Man’s love for words was his first step towards ignorance, and his love for definitions the second. The more he analysed, the more he needed to define, and the more he defined, the more he aimed at an impossible logical perfection, the effect of which was only a sign of ignorance.

 

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THE CURRENT ENGINEERED WORLD HEALTH 'CRISIS' HAS BROUGHT INTO FULL RELIEF VARIOUS NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS, SOME OF WHICH HAVE ALTERED.

FOR EXAMPLE, AUSTRALIA (ONLY IN TERMS OF CARICATURE!) WAS ONCE THE LAND WHERE 'THE MEN WERE HARD, THE BEDS WERE SOFT, AND THE WOMEN WERE SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN', WHEREAS NOW IT COULD BE CARICATURED AS 'THE LAND WHERE THE WOMEN ARE HARD, THE BEDS ARE SOFT, AND THE MEN ARE SOMEWERE IN BETWEEN.'

DOES THIS EXPLAIN WHY THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT IS TOO FRIGHTENED TO PROTEST TO THE USA AND UK, AND PROTECT THEIR CITIZEN, THE HERO JULIAN ASSANGE? WILL AUSTRALIA REMAIN GUTLESS AND SPINELESS, UNLIKE THE POLITICAL PRISONER ASSANGE, WHOSE ONLY 'CRIME' WAS TO EXPOSE THE EVIL KILLINGS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE?

WILL AUSTRALIA CONTINUE TO HIDE ITS OSTRICH HEAD IN THE SAND, OR WILL IT STAND UP FOR ITS CITIZEN, LIKE A REAL MAN, OR PREFER TO REMAIN A PSEUDO-MAN?

 

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