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Dear Ken,
This will be "the Asian century", you say in today's Guardian (A city for the Asian century): never mind the colour of a person's skin; all that matters is the colour of their money, i.e. power and economics. "That which is best in our culture . . . will survive. Any traits that do not deserve to survive . . . will be undermined by brutal economic facts," you continue. That is socio-economic Darwinism. And it really is brutal - because rooted in man's primitive animal nature. It is depressing the way, right across the political spectrum (from far left to far right), this is accepted and submitted to.
I would like
to live in a
world (a
socio-economic
order) that is
ruled, not by our
animal nature,
but by our
more enlightened
human nature -
in which a
person's skin
colour (as an
indicator of
origin, relatedness,
difference and
diversity) is
more important
than the
colour of
their money
(i.e. the
power money
gives them
over others).
I shudder,
Ken, at your
vision of the
world, driven
and shaped by
economic
forces rooted
in man's
primitive
animal nature.
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