[MD] Contrarians Will Save the World

[ian glendinning]

Brilliant Arlo.
Armageddon-Outta-Here

Pissing contests - "addition to conflict" as some would say - is the
real problem.
Wisdom is the alternative to demonising people you have disagreements
with as "opponents". Try this ...
http://www.unhookedthinking.com/pdf/unhookedprogramme.pdf

Extra marks for working Grandmaster Flash into it.
Whodathoughtit.
Ian

On 3/21/06, Arlo J. Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> According to CNN, an Amr Khaled is emerging as a voice of reason among the
> right-wing pissers on the Islamic side of the contest.
>
> "In the process, Khaled is sometimes telling the faithful what they're not used
> to hearing from clerics -- that Muslims aren't blameless in tensions, that the
> West is not always bad and that dialogue is better than confrontation."
>
> Now, only, if someone on this side of the pond would pick up the
> contrarian-hippy mantle so that CNN could report...
>
> "In the process, Hippy X is sometimes telling the faithful what they're not used
> to hearing from right-wing politicians -- that Americans aren't blameless in
> tensions, that Islam is not always bad and that dialogue is better than
> confrontation."
>
> The report goes on to add (with some idealistic Hippy X revisions in parens)...
>
> "For Khaled (Hippy X), the controversy underlined what he has seen as a need for
> a new approach by Muslims (Americans), one of reform and dialogue with the rest
> of the world.
>
> "For the past three years, with youth across the Islamic (Western) world, we've
> been working for a faith-based (political-based) renaissance in this region,
> which will not take place by clashes but by coexistence," he said in an
> interview with The Associated Press in Cairo.
>
> He said he had expected the criticism over his new campaign. "An initiative by
> definition is something new, and I represent a school that has opposing schools
> of thought," he said."
>
> As I said, this type of rationale dialogue is the only way out. But so long as
> right-wing zealots are more interested in winning their righteous pissing
> contest, and not listening to the voice of contrarians, whether Amr Khaled
> there or ??? here, we are headed for Armageddon-Outta-Here.
>
> Bring on the Contrarians, where are the hippies? Why must the Peacemakers fall?
>
> Arlo
>
> "A newspaper burns in the sand, and the headlines say 'Man destroys Man!'
> Extra! Extra! Read all the bad news
>    on the war for peace that everybody would lose
> The rise and fall, the last great empire,
>    the sound of the whole world caught on fire
> The ruthless struggle, the desperate gamble
> The game that left the whole world in shambles"
>
> - Grandmaster Flash, Beat Street
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