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To: carranza2 who wrote (200962)	3/29/2007 10:56:52 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793732

Soooooooooo, c2......Whose myth do you like better? Whose myth has actually done some good in the world? Whose myth sent aircraft carriers and ships to the tsunami victims in South Asia a couple of years ago? And of course, there are MANY etcs....!

To: carranza2 who wrote (200962)	3/29/2007 11:54:44 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 793732

This leaves free markets - globalization - as our preeminent myth. I read the essay as suggesting that a national myth based essentially on economics does little to meet the more transcendent needs of everyday men and woman, that we are wired to want more than bread on the table. Yes, I agree with that. The simple truth is we have no chance of winning hearts and minds anyhwere when most of those people are striving for subsitence. The 70% of humanity with almost nothing has no way to get on the train to modernity. We are certainly not the oppressors, but we are an easy target for any local politician as a huge bogeyman and evil force(e.g. Chavez). The part I do not understand is the developed nations which also view us as something evil.