[Peace-discuss] the great sin

[n.dahlheim at mchsi.com]

Dovetailing that point....

http://www.unknownnews.org/070825a-LeonF.html

Is our indifference collectively as a nation, even if we know what is going on and harbor reservations, a 
form of support for this regime?  I absolutely think so....


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From:    "Lisa Chason" <chason at shout.net>
To:      <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] the great sin
Date:    Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:42:57 +0000

> "What is the great Amercican sin? Extravagance? Vice? Graft? No; it is a
> kind of half-humorous, good-natured indifference, a lack of "concentrated
> indignation" as my English friend calls it, which allows extravagance and
> vice to flourish. Trace most of our ills to their source, and it is found
> that they exist by virtue of an easy-going, fatalistic indifference which
> dislikes to have its comfort disturbed....The most shameless greed, the most
> sickening industrial atrocities, the most appalling public scandals are
> exposed, but a half-cynical and wholly indifferent public passes them by
> with hardly a shrug of the shoulders; and they are lost in the medley of
> events. This is the great American sin.": Joseph Fort Newman, Atlantic
> Monthly, October 1922
> 
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