25-11-2010, 03:18 PM
James H. Fetzer Wrote:Just a note to thank Jack White, Duane Damon, Tom Kellum, Peter Lemkin, Dave Guyatt, Malcolm Pryce, Charles Drago, and everyone else, including Peter Dawson, who has taken an interest in this thread. I have learned a lot from the exchange and am still learning. I also like Dave Guyatt's post #164 better than my own #163, for all of the obvious reasons. I like the DPF as a deeper and far more reflective intellectual environment than the EF, even when we occasionally disagree. So I write to wish you all HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Jim, Jack, Peter, David, and Additional DPF Co-Founders and Friends,
I second Jim's sentiments as expressed above. And I am grateful to him for the benefits of his insight and scholarship especially as they manifest during our spirited disagreements.
And so, as Americans celebrate the invasion of this continent and, by extension, the literal and cultural genocides of its native inhabitants, I thank all of you for your comraderie, courage, and strength.
Best,
Charles
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene