From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Re: The crazy, or everyday irrationality, was Einstein
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:25:26 -0700



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From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: The crazy, or everyday irrationality, was Einstein


> John Foster wrote:
>
> >Could you tie this into the theme of this discussion list!
>
> I was simply responding to your argument that America is equally a
terrorist
> nation for what they did. So however it was that you linked your argument
to
> this discussion list is also how my response is so linked.
>
> >If I was an Iraqi citizen and a pollster asked me to decide on how I
would
> >like to model my nation as to democractic model, then I would even if I
was
> >a professor of law, chose a country with a constitution and form of
> >government much like the US.
>
> The question was not "how I would like to model my nation as to DEMOCRATIC
> model." The question was how they would like to model their government,
> period.
>
> >This is an example of what Heidegger refers to when he discusses
> >'everydayness' and 'idle curiousity' and it is just not
'thinking'....sorry
> >to say
>
> And that completely contradicts what you said before about listening to
> other indigenous peoples, sorry to say. That's all I'm doing, following
your
> own criteria, and suddenly now it's not thinking, but mere everydayness
and
> idle curiosity. Your entire analysis of the situation is based precisely
on
> projecting your own view on the indigenous people in question, because the
> latter seem to want something very different from what you want and
wanted.
> EXACTLY the same thing happened during Vietnam, as we discovered too late
> upon the arrival of the boat people. It's just repeating the same mistake,
> and I don't think the repetation of mistakes is what Heidegger would call
> "thinking."
>
> Anthony Crifasi

So Anthony,


what would you then say about this if the poll did not support your
argument?

And what about the recent polls in the US vis a vis the contention by D.
Rumsfeld that Saddam Hussein and the Bath Party have no connection to Al
Queda. Early polls indicate that a majority of US citizens believe that the
Bath Party has connections (not proved) to Al Queda. Now polls are
indicating that US citizens do not believe this to be the case, despite
Rumsfeld exaggerated claims.







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