Perhaps, Pound did not support the notion of Athenian democracy because
it was in actuality anything but democratic. It was part cartel, part
Lion's Club. A true kleptocracy. That's why our Found[l]ing Fathers, out
of admiration, erected so many buildings with big, white pillars. Any
'leftist' who trucked all the way here to Washington, which I
affectionately refer to as Satan's Anus, to protest IMF and World Bank
policies, should be able to make this connection as a matter of reflex.
Further, he should realize that there are no 'democratic' Half Measures
tolerated inside this money/power nexus. Have you read Edward Bernays
1928 classic, Propaganda, on the method and manner of authoritarian
control in the so-called democracies? And Bernays is no Chomsky. He
worked for the other side. One of his most famous achievements was to
supply PR cover for the brutal overthrow of the Arbenz government by the
CIA and Dept. of State in Guatemala in 1954. CP


  En Lin Wei wrote:
>
> charles moyer <[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>
> >So Christian ritual is rooted in pagan mythology and Confucianism is rooted
> >in Chinese poetic and metaphysical tradition. What is particularly bad or
> >undemocratic in this?
>
> It is extremely undemocratic!!!  Perhaps, if we are looking at the larger
> picture we should say, Western  religious tradition is rooted in pagan
> mythology and in Judeo-Christian beliefs.  Western Political tradition is
> rooted in Athenian democracy and the Roman Republic.
>
> Chinese Religio-philosophical tradition is rooted in ancient Chinese
> mythologies, the I Ching, Taoism, Confucianism, Legalism, and Buddhism.
>
> >Once again I quote Pound from "Kulchur" , "That one's
> >roots are not a disease but parts of a vital orgainism is worth feeling"
>
> But this is precisely Pound's problem.  He feels that the some the most
> important roots of Western tradition are diseases.  So he lops off the
> Judeo-Christian tradition, almost wholesale; and denigrates Greco-Roman
> acheivements in designing representative governments.  (See Guide to Kulchur
> again).
>
> What he does to Chinese tradition is worse.  Most Chinese see tradition as a
> triad:  Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are the three largest essential
> elements.  Pound lops two legs off the stool , and causes it to fall over.
>
> THE ROOTS ARE NOT A DISEASE.  Then why not nourish them all?  Pound the
> totalitarian has to uproot all the elements which are compatible with, or
> which could nourish democracy.
>
> Regards,
>
> Wei
>
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