[Reader-list] Wikileaks and the End of America!

[TaraPrakash]

It's not really heartening to know that you speak vociferously against one side and then say you were just taking a short cut as you didn't have much time at hand. I call this approach "4 legs good 2 legs bad" approach from George Orwell. Whatever is 2 legs, for instance,  is America. You decide you will join 4 legs (anti US) all the time. Many of us do that, reduce issues to black and white, and take one side. 

Kabir referred to such situation in the following:

Chalti Chaaki deki ke
Diya Kabira roy
Do patan ke bich mein 
Sabut bacha na koy.
After seeing the grinding mill in operation, Kabira started crying. The clash of 2 sides left no one in one piece.




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pheeta Ram 
  To: TaraPrakash 
  Cc: sarai list 
  Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 2:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Wikileaks and the End of America!


  Dear Taraprakash


  Many people on this forum, yourself included, are very good at "challenging, problematizing approach." And i happily benefit from their insights. My nature and capabilities and limitations of time at hand don't permit me to follow suit. I get satisfied when my information reaches a threshold, for after that i only have to decide on which side i am. Then i move on. I believe in the ethics of arrival and not in the aesthetics of deferral.  


  Best 


  Pheeta Ram