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Re: Biotechnology, demons and sustainability
In article <199612020411.XAA17541@walnut.holli.com> sbonney@holli.com (steve bonney) writes:
>Jeff, I have great respect for you and your convictions. We certainly need
>persons of principle to remind us of the wisdom and the ways of Ghandi and
>native people. And even to remind us of our humanness and areas where we can
>improve quality of life. You are correct in your assessment and in your
>idealism.
>
>In reality, we are in a situation not unlike war, however. A war for control
>of our culture; a war for control of our natural resources; a war for the
>control of our personhood.
Are you seriously suggesting that Ghandi had it much easier than we did?
That the removal of the British from India was unlike war? That it
did NOT involve control of India's culture, natural resources, and
personhood?
I think that putting your struggle on a higher plane than that of
the people of India is tremendously elitist. And your crack about
"the ways of Ghandi and NATIVE PEOPLE" is insufferably paternalistic.
I hate to tell you this, but you're a native person, too.
-- Robert
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