Re: you are insufferably sanctimonious

On 26 Dec 2000, at 14:00, Tom Gabriel (rich geld?) wrote:

From:           	"Tom Gabriel" <byrhtnoth_at_hotmail.com>
To:             	PierceED_at_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 Received on Tue Dec 26 2000 - 18:16:51 CST