There are ghosts and there are spirits, but they aren't the same. Zeit geist is literally spirit of the time or spirit of the age geist also means ghost.. So then, what is the spirit of America? Othering, racism, greed, agression, selfishness, even our philanthropy is self serving at it's core.
I am of two minds on ghosts, I don't believe in them, yet I have had a couple of inexplainable experiences. I take refuge in George Bernard Shaws dictum, that the test of a first rate intelligence is to be able to hold two mutually exclusive ideas at the same time and still be able to function.
As regards ghosts, Well the ruling class, the powers that be, promote the idea of non violent demonstrations, of course they do, violence shakes their knees and destroys property and the one thing that they worship is property.
Nay, the British left India because of the ghosts (Spirit, geist) of Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army., and millions of armed and angry Indians, not because of Ghandi.
Bose had met with Hitler and had formed the Indian Legion (not part of the Wehrmacht) that fought alongside the Wehrmacht. The Indian National Army, had joined with the Japanese to fight the British in India.
Neither were fascists. They were Indian Nationalists. The Indian National Army (INA) disintegrated after the defeat of Japan in World War II in 1945, as its military support and resources vanished. The surviving troops were captured by the British, who then tried some of them for treason. Despite the INA's military failure, its trials back in India became a catalyst for public nationalism, which helped hasten India's independence.
There should be a spirit of racial equality, that will benefit all of mankind, not just white males, but it has been co-opted by cell phones games, , computers, cars, games and what are, in reality luxuries, whom we think are necessities, easy living, even for the poor
I am pretty sure that people who say they can't afford food and medicine have a cell phone and a provider.
By the way, I am well off and can afford luxuries, but I don't have a cell phone and never will.
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There are ghosts and there are spirits, but they aren't the same. Zeit geist is literally spirit of the time or spirit of the age geist also means ghost.. So then, what is the spirit of America? Othering, racism, greed, agression, selfishness, even our philanthropy is self serving at it's core.
I am of two minds on ghosts, I don't believe in them, yet I have had a couple of inexplainable experiences. I take refuge in George Bernard Shaws dictum, that the test of a first rate intelligence is to be able to hold two mutually exclusive ideas at the same time and still be able to function.
As regards ghosts, Well the ruling class, the powers that be, promote the idea of non violent demonstrations, of course they do, violence shakes their knees and destroys property and the one thing that they worship is property.
Nay, the British left India because of the ghosts (Spirit, geist) of Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army., and millions of armed and angry Indians, not because of Ghandi.
Bose had met with Hitler and had formed the Indian Legion (not part of the Wehrmacht) that fought alongside the Wehrmacht. The Indian National Army, had joined with the Japanese to fight the British in India.
Neither were fascists. They were Indian Nationalists. The Indian National Army (INA) disintegrated after the defeat of Japan in World War II in 1945, as its military support and resources vanished. The surviving troops were captured by the British, who then tried some of them for treason. Despite the INA's military failure, its trials back in India became a catalyst for public nationalism, which helped hasten India's independence.
There should be a spirit of racial equality, that will benefit all of mankind, not just white males, but it has been co-opted by cell phones games, , computers, cars, games and what are, in reality luxuries, whom we think are necessities, easy living, even for the poor
I am pretty sure that people who say they can't afford food and medicine have a cell phone and a provider.
By the way, I am well off and can afford luxuries, but I don't have a cell phone and never will.