Bhutan Schmutan

[Guest guest]

Hello All,

What is needed is perspective intra/extra culturally

and historically. Shock horror for you is the norm

for the other and vv. What works for one society would

be a disaster in another. To assume that the

democratic system translates world wide is

unsafe.Hierarchical setups together with clan loyalty

may produce a greater level of security for other

peoples. Benign despotism may even be a workable

system for them.

 

In the same way ancient codes that have religious

sanction have to be viewed as related to that time and

place and require continuous mediation between the

Divine and the people who recieve them. In a sense

they are rewritten by the focus being shifted to areas

that are not time and situation bound. All this is

simple and stupid however two unlikely allies

complicate the picture - the fundamentalists and the

liberal intelligentsia. Both insist that the meaning

is given once and for all time.

 

To be socio-centric is natural and normal and it can

have amusing aspects to it. (A varient of The Comedy

of Manners genre in English Literature is based on it

to a degree) I remember being asked in a train in

India 'What caste are you?'(I'm Celtic type) An

American, Howie, was asked ' You are from where? - New

York says Howie

- New York, New York, aatcha, Is there much rice in

your village? That was pre doordarshan, cable and

NYPD Blue. Lately if I watch T.V. at all it is an

Irish language channel that I watch. It's such a

mental rest to be away from English media. There's a

dating game show where the twist is that Mother gets to

review the girls for her son. Do they agree or do

they not? Irony, sort of. That could travel.

 

Best Wishes, Michael.

[Guest guest]

At 08:18 PM 6/23/2003 +0100, ombhurbhuva wrote:

Irish language channel that I watch. It's such a

mental rest to be away from English media.

 

 

 

Hello Michael,

 

I don't watch television at all. Haven't since 1972. Movies on DVD, yes. But

not TV or cable.

 

--Greg