Re: [A-List] (Fwd) Re: Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahm

[Gopal Kappiarath <gopalkster@xxxxxxxxx>]

>   There are many cultural
> problems in Iran, some of which the government invents and others of
> which it very much aggravates through its censorship, policing, and so
> on.  The question is how best to remedy them.
> --  
> Yoshie


Speaking of dissidence and suppression, I can tell you,  here in India,
there would be lots of groups happy if  Uncle Sam bombed the living  
daylights
out of India and destroyed its government. For these groups, who are  
suppressed
by the iron fist of the government, the collapse of authority/state  
power would be liberation.

Just as Bush ( though elected) can hardly represent the people living  
in US, the same goes for the
Indian prime minister and the Iranian President.

The myth of government/democracy ensures  that they can act as  
spokespersons for their nations,
but these men are just individuals who having come to power, uses  
that platform to their liking.

I have had fantasies in which the entire ruling class in US could be  
wiped out some way or the other.

As  Arundhati Roy  said, " I wish we could bomb our way to a feminist  
paradise."

You are hopeful of remedies, I'm pessimistic. I am already resigned  
to a world of
injustice and hopelessness. In a way, this is a survival mechanism,  
( for me) where hoping for the worst,
makes anything else seem better.

Things won't change. We live in a bad world.  Try for small  
pleasures  and little sources of joy.

I just don't want you to get disappointed hoping for a better world !

Gopal