From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 01:47:31 MST
A mighty intense article, that. There's a shifting essence of irrationality,
that extremists hope will see them through to total victory. To quote Bruce
Sterling, we must become "flexible and persistant" to beat such fanatics.
Nanowave point out:
<<In 1942, not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of Japanese
philosophers got together in Kyoto to discuss Japan's role in the world. The
project of this ultra-nationalist gathering was, as they put it, to find a
way to "overcome modern civilization." Since modern civilization was another
term for Western civilization, the conference might just as well have been
entitled "Overcoming the West." In a complete reversal of the
late-nineteenth-century goal of "leaving Asia and joining the West," Japan
was now fighting a "holy war" to liberate Asia from the West and purify
Asian minds of Western ideas. Part of the holy war was, as it were, an
exercise in philosophical cleansing . . .
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15100>>
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