Post by maddogblues on Oct 26, 2009 16:18:53 GMT -5
This is a Socialist analysis of the goings on regarding 'democracy building', the upcoming 'free' election and the attempt to bring the people of Afghanistan into the 'modern' world. It's something we can see for ourselves in the next few weeks. Is the Socialist analysis right, or is the Socialist analysis wrong?
We can talk about it in a few weeks when the 'democratic process' has run it's course. What is significant to me is that not many of the 'people' of Afghanistan seemed to have had an inclination to choose 'democracy' as the way they want to have their civilization organized until the U.S. landed there and the mainstream media began explaining their plight to the people consuming that media.
I have the idea that the 'way of life' they had before all this began was what they had chosen for themselves and that choosing 'democracy' had not been anything they had ever considered.
I have the idea this election to become a 'democracy' is being forced on them at the end of a gun barrel with the goal of manipulating future relationships with the nation for the furthering of interests of no concern the native people have ever held before the gun barrel was at their chest and their country occupied.
This should be interesting. In a few weeks we will have additional insight when the results come in.
I have been impressed with the 'worker' perspective the Socialist analysis comes from. It seems a much more humane perspective to hold than the one forcing the Afghanistan people to hold an election with only two choices to make.
The 'Kingfish' has put a factory farm raised chicken in my pot today and I have to take him out; there's gonna be soup with noodles. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Huey_Long
Next time it will be a 'free range' chicken. It's a spiritual thing with me. I began thinking of how this chicken was raised to be put him on my table.
The chicken and I will eventually die, Shiva's dance is eternal. One of us will die more cruelly than the other. The chicken, I believe, doesn't think of it, humans do.
I had forgotten this until I looked at the dismembered body stewing in my pot. The videos are typical of the very best conditions that 'factory farm' chickens are raised in according to Wegmans and experts from Cornell University. www.redorbit.com/news/science/464956/controversy_hatching_over_wegmans_egg_farm/index.html
Wegmans has abandoned this project after the controversy. They are one of the better companies that operate on this scale. The problem does not lie with this producer, it is the industry as a whole. This producer has given up the production of raising chickens to produce eggs.
My thought is not that eating meat is wrong. But that the meal from the flesh of an animal should be consumed in a sacramental sense. The animal gave it's life for the one eating it and should be honored the way a Catholic honors the host. Who despises the life given for ones own sustenance more than one who tortures it before it is killed and consumed?
We can talk about it in a few weeks when the 'democratic process' has run it's course. What is significant to me is that not many of the 'people' of Afghanistan seemed to have had an inclination to choose 'democracy' as the way they want to have their civilization organized until the U.S. landed there and the mainstream media began explaining their plight to the people consuming that media.
I have the idea that the 'way of life' they had before all this began was what they had chosen for themselves and that choosing 'democracy' had not been anything they had ever considered.
I have the idea this election to become a 'democracy' is being forced on them at the end of a gun barrel with the goal of manipulating future relationships with the nation for the furthering of interests of no concern the native people have ever held before the gun barrel was at their chest and their country occupied.
This should be interesting. In a few weeks we will have additional insight when the results come in.
I have been impressed with the 'worker' perspective the Socialist analysis comes from. It seems a much more humane perspective to hold than the one forcing the Afghanistan people to hold an election with only two choices to make.
The 'Kingfish' has put a factory farm raised chicken in my pot today and I have to take him out; there's gonna be soup with noodles. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Huey_Long
Next time it will be a 'free range' chicken. It's a spiritual thing with me. I began thinking of how this chicken was raised to be put him on my table.
The chicken and I will eventually die, Shiva's dance is eternal. One of us will die more cruelly than the other. The chicken, I believe, doesn't think of it, humans do.
I had forgotten this until I looked at the dismembered body stewing in my pot. The videos are typical of the very best conditions that 'factory farm' chickens are raised in according to Wegmans and experts from Cornell University. www.redorbit.com/news/science/464956/controversy_hatching_over_wegmans_egg_farm/index.html
Wegmans has abandoned this project after the controversy. They are one of the better companies that operate on this scale. The problem does not lie with this producer, it is the industry as a whole. This producer has given up the production of raising chickens to produce eggs.
My thought is not that eating meat is wrong. But that the meal from the flesh of an animal should be consumed in a sacramental sense. The animal gave it's life for the one eating it and should be honored the way a Catholic honors the host. Who despises the life given for ones own sustenance more than one who tortures it before it is killed and consumed?