I have been tremendously influenced by Tibetan Buddhism, and the Dalai Lama has always struck me as a remarkable human being.
Nonetheless, the timing of this whole Tibetan thing doesn't smell right at all. It has all the markings of being coordinated, or at least influenced, by Western intelligence agencies, as a means to "rearrange" the Grand Chessboard - much like the "Orange" revolution in the Ukraine.
The propaganda efforts of Western geopolitical interests never cease to astound me - whether it's positioning the Serbs as agents of genocide to carve off Kosovo for western interests, or "framing" the Rwandan genocide as the bloodthirsty Hutus butchering the innocent Hutus (although there is obviously truth to the particularly the latter, it's far from the whole story). I was quite stunned, though not entirely surprised, when it started to come out (most specifically in a French court case this past year) that Paul Kagami had ordered the assassination of the Hutu President in the event that triggered the massacre in Rwanda. Boy did that ever not fit into the "official narrative" of Hotel Rwanda.
How is it that there can be over 4 million dead in the Congo in the past decade, and it isn't really "news". But, there's an uprising of monks in Tibet, and the Western media orchestrates a world-wide outcry? I would make the case that the reason is because the 4 million dead in the Congo are part of an active geopolitical strategy in which WE are engaged (as are many other nations, including China). Where in Tibet, it is our geopolitical rival that is complicit. In other words, our choice of what is "newsworthy" and what world issues are deserving of moral outcry is entirely framed by the West's geopolitical interests.
Anyway, it makes me mad. That being said, I have huge respect for the Tibetan culture, and I hope that it is able to thrive in the future, along with people and cultures that have been, and continue to be, victims of western (or Russian, or Chinese, or Israeli, or Saudi, or Canadian!, or ...) geopolitical ambitions.
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