... had they defeated the PLA, they probably would have gone on to do just that. Had that been the case, I bet the the U.S. State Department wouldn't have objected. But let us not romanticise the life of Tibetans prior to the invasion either. As Michael Parenti (and many others like Leigh Feigon, in his book Demystifying Tibet) has documented, Tibet “was a retrograde theocracy of serfdom and ...
..., not helped by Beijing's scorn for the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists. Modern China must think again about assimilating the "enemy", as it has done through the dynastic ages. Secondly, romanticised nonsense spewed about Tibet does not change the fact that it has been a part of the Chinese empire for three centuries, since the westward expansion of the early Qing period. Some ...
... of a general fascination with rural romanticism. We're comfortable, wealthy and well fed. Divorced from the need to struggle for survival against the random viciousness and cruelty of nature, we can romanticise it as something benign. We see this in real life, with millions of people believing they'd enjoy life as primitive agrarian subsistence farmers. It may also be that this rose-tinted ...
... other things were better, many of them quite important. Not to forget that some things that are good about the present are too often pure theory, such as human rights. In short, I do not want to romanticise the past. But it's high time to learn from history (including periods and places that are little known or even unknown to the general public, or not as well as they thought, or that are ...
... is force Left or right, right or left, it takes the same old course Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law The seizure of that power is all your revolution's for You romanticise your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression now Nothing changed for all the death, that their ideas created It's just the same fascistic games, but the rules...
... (on behalf of all his crew) give up a life of food replicators, transporters, air conditioning, warp drive etc etc for shovelling goat shit. (Indeed, Kirk's rejection of the proposed back-to-nature pastoral idyll is a good warning to those today who romanticise such a life and hate the comforts of modernity...) 3) Risk is his business. ::applause:: Great post. :)
...up a life of food replicators, transporters, air conditioning, warp drive etc etc for shovelling goat shit. (Indeed, Kirk's rejection of the proposed back-to-nature pastoral idyll is a good warning to those today who romanticise such a life and hate the comforts of modernity...) 3) Risk is his business. Ian -- www.jaxtrawstudios.com science fiction comics with shagging in
... the fuckin' thing.. there's no need for it.. Real Madrid have 9 European Cups, no-one in their right mind says 6EC & 3CL.. UEFA put great effort into romanticising the past winners of the EC, as do SKY when they have CL nights.. ..the World Cup has changed trophy and format through the years, but it remains the ...
... well we've won the fuckin' thing.. there's no need for it.. Real Madrid have 9 European Cups, no-one in their right mind says 6EC & 3CL.. UEFA put great effort into romanticising the past winners of the EC, as do SKY when they have CL nights.. ..the World Cup has changed trophy and format through the years, but it remains the World Cup.. ...
... you know perfectly well we've won the fuckin' thing.. there's no need for it.. Real Madrid have 9 European Cups, no-one in their right mind says 6EC & 3CL.. UEFA put great effort into romanticising the past winners of the EC, as do SKY when they have CL nights.. ..the World Cup has changed trophy and format through the years, but it remains the World Cup.. ...
