Isnt this the core of their arguements.. for them there is no difference in the "content" of the myth.. what is relevant for them is that we both have them and they want to "beat the crap out of us"?
So, it looks like this diary contains the core of a lot of discussions about our goals here and about how to interact with the broad society (and the set of beliefs some present structures have?).
Am I the only one?
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
No! You could write a great great diary about this clash of myths...how "truth" is always self-evident to the believer, and the fact piles that are used in arguments (each side has its own fact pile.)
But what's fascinating to me is how strong the green lobby must have suddenly got. I blame the internet. The youngsters are no longer watching television and they're all acting like mad hippies and refusing their parent's cherished beliefs.
And thanks for the diary, Jerome!
Now, can we cobble together some interesting questions so that I can ask Caroline Lucas for an e-mail interview?
(She was on newsnight the other evening...it's as if the Lib Dems have bowed out and the Greens are coming up on the outside...)
(Or maybe not ;) Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
