2005.3.25=5[#84]:4703.2.16[#45/60]: [url] Lease Signed. 0)Society by Morality. 1)US Media.

[Phone] "All About Skype, A Free Voice over IP (VoIP) Program": http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news/newsletter/index.php?article=159 [World]"Daylight-Saving Time(UK)": http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/bst.htm [Time] http://www.worldtimezone.com/ Sun again cool less: up 8:15, effortly answered [G]'s J from loyalty to " "On Morality" #1005: Society [ EU Passport #101: Loyalty? [British Subject by Birth] ] ", below after diary. 1st finished emails at 1:45pm. Managed documents and finally done with some old mails. Late lunch almost 4-6pm, when Mei/Jyun home got back signed lease, Mei cooked then to class, Jyun/Ch dinner. Then finished documents/old mails etc. by 7pm, finishing this 7:45pm, soon to o.h., bed 12:30. EMAIL: [G] "On Morality" #1005: Society: "" For me, the basic foundation is morality any way. I prefer to the maximum ways morality lead the ways, and political and violent controls to the minimum, the latter are restricted by the former. In the traditional China, "Emperor is far away,." except any disloyalty to Him were extremely controlled. In the modern America, "Everyone is free", except everything we do and even think is not only conditioned by constant ad conditioning (or brainwashing), but also very intrusively regulated in many, many aspects. For example, the current version of the infamous monkey trial, movement for governmental regulation of abortion, marriage, etc. are some kinds of marching towards 1894 or the brave new world? Family and marriage should be the last defense of personal liberty? "" TOPIC: US Media: "One-Way Planet", By Tom Engelhardt, editor of Tomdispatch.com. Posted March 25, 2005; AlterNet: http://www.alternet.org/story/21589/ "" Exactly how narrow have the boundaries of discussion about the American "mission" in the world grown in the Bush years? "" "" But to really grasp why this is so, I suspect you have to throw in, as a kicker, a deep-seated American sense of national "exceptionalism," a sense of American goodness that can't be matched elsewhere on the planet. This is something most of us grew up with, that lies deep in our nation's history, in that sense of being in a New World, and well rid of an evil European old world. Though this is a deeply honorable (if also in many ways deeply flawed) strain of American thinking – it's where much of the idea of American "promise" comes from – it is also a state of mind that the Bush administration has played upon with consummate skill. The combination of imperial impunity and national goodness of a kind not possessed by other lands has, in fact, proved something of a lethal cocktail. It lifts us into a "category of one" mentality in a way that seems to explain why we can possess weaponry and do things that, in others, would horrify us, and it absolves us of thinking about how others might look on us and our acts in the world. ""