[lit-ideas] Re: Is Huntington right?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:22:14 -0400
You're right, actually. We love our guns, big guns, little guns, useful guns
or useless guns. We love 'em all. So obviously do the Japanese. It's hard to
imagine that people who love guns are not militaristic. It might be why they
buddy up to the gaijin Americans. It's unlikely that they would actually start
a war since they having an aging society (so few workers they might be either
importing Chinese workers or exporting work to China) but America is their
Jungian Shadow, their counterpart. We do what they used to do, only not as
savagely. We are their stooges, running around the world going boom boom with
our real tanks. Birds of a feather ...
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Helm
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 4/10/2006 11:46:43 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Is Huntington right?
You needed to overlook what I wrote to manage this one. I wrote ?We did indeed
clash with them in 1941-1945, but once their militaristic government was
overturned, they have evinced an enormous number of similarities to the U.S.?
I indicated some of the things I admired about Japan, their poetry, their
Samurai tradition, a sensitive writer like Shohei Ooka, and a courageous
warrior like Sabaru Sakai, but Omar concluded that I must like them because
they are racist and you conclude that I shouldn?t forgive them because of the
1937 Rape of Nanking during their militaristic period. Quite imaginative of
you two.
Lawrence
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