tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post3620386830126601247..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: We Are Not Speaking Now, We Were Never SpeakingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-40759544846706439532022-11-26T15:45:02.972-05:002022-11-26T15:45:02.972-05:00"Samuel Huntington... [said] 'Osama bin L..."Samuel Huntington... [said] 'Osama bin Laden has given the West back its identity' ... The assertion of incommensurate values by others entails reaffirmation of one’s own."<br /><br />The 'identity' America asserted was the worst of what our society and culture had to offer - violence and Imperial overreach. America, however, saw that as expressions of Our Best. Bin Laden and his cohorts were doing the same -- offering violence and murder -- and claiming as the West did that all was permitted because their cause was religious and pure.<br /><br />In circumstances where nation-states face off against each other, the confrontation seems to be set up in advance for both parties to reflect back the worst of themselves -- and then reflexively each observes, "You say that like it's a bad thing". No one looks at their position from a neutral viewpoint. No one asks whether from an uninvolved perspective that they're right.Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.com