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To: Sultan who wrote (334338)	4/22/2017 9:51:04 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542125

That was a great article on the caste system in India. I didn't know it was that terrible and I doubt very few Americans or most people in the rest of the world do. If one examines humans intolerance for pain suffered on other humans throughout our history it was terrible, and how much better things are today due to education. The extant inhumanity of the caste system is really nothing more than the manifestation of ignorance. It is not any different than our tolerance for slavery, or racism, torture, or all the other horrible things the human species has engaged in during our evolution toward civilization. And it all has to do with education and development of the mind. Too many people romanticize illiteracy, ignorance or poverty. None of that stuff is romantic. And if people can't think, they often engage in and even seek out brutality: war, fighting, gladiators of Rome, public hangings, they even had a picnic to watch the first big battle of the civil war, bull fights, etc.. If one looks at the continent of Africa, I don't know of a single country that is a thriving democracy functioning well with the rule of law. And there's not a single country in the Middle East that is a thriving democracy with the rule of law. IN both cases because the people are mired in primitive social dogma they cannot throw off for lack of education. The Kurds have the most well functioning democracy and they are also the most secular and not a real country. It has to do with education which enables the individual the ability to walk out of Plato's cave of dogmatic illusion we are all born into and into the bright sunlight of existentialism i.e. understanding our illusory existence and that everyone is exactly the same and all the cultures and individual differences are nothing more than contrived differences we made up along the way and where they are negative should have no meaning whatsoever. It is a shame that not enough people can connect the dots and see that the terrible past history of violence perpetrated by the human species was a result of ignorant dogma and the inability of the individual to escape it because of a lack of education. If one looks at cinema from around the world in just the last couple of years they will notice that the young are making movies and as often as not the theme will have to do with man's inhumanity to man and how stupid it is. This is especially true with regard to males depressing females, prejudice against the gay community, or general ethnocentric hegemony.