From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   A Nazi once wrote to “think outside the box.” He has seen outside one box,   
   then he put himself into a much worse box.   
      
   There are many boxes, and there are many ways outside of these boxes. Climbing   
   out of a box can be a difficult task, and many people who do that are worthy   
   of respect. What is not worthy of respect is replacing a box with a much worse   
   box. Nazism is much    
   worse than “conventional” American thinking. Indeed it is probably the   
   worst thing to have ever been tried, worse even than jihadism and Communism.   
   Its reputation is this: The bottom of the world.   
      
   William Bennett said that in most cases of power takeovers, the order that   
   ensued was worse than the order that it replaced. Sometimes that is the case,   
   sometimes it isn’t. Status quo can be good and it can be bad. People wanting   
   to change it can be    
   good and they can be bad. Certainly the current Western arrangement is much   
   better than Nazism or jihadism; and people involved in it have every right to   
   defend themselves against people pushing such things.   
      
   As for myself, I have seen the inside and outside of many boxes. I have looked   
   at many ideas and many cultures that were completely different from how I have   
   been brought up. I have come to one conclusion: That there have been many   
   smart people all    
   around the world in all of history, and much stands to be learned from other   
   civilizations and other people. I have come to another conclusion: That the   
   current arrangement is the best that has ever been tried.   
      
   I do not believe that there is a single box to climb out of. There are many   
   boxes, and there always have been. The Chinese, the Hindus, and the Africans   
   and Native Americans all had their own boxes. Some of these boxes were better   
   than others. Once again,   
    much stands to be learned from all these people. That does not mean however   
   being ugly to one’s own people.   
      
   So that while it is valid to climb out of boxes, it is not valid to go into a   
   worse box. There are many things worse than the contemporary status quo. I   
   encourage more people to go outside the box of their upbringing and learn   
   other things; I do not    
   however encourage them to go into worse boxes than ones they have climbed out   
   of. The current arrangement has a lot to recommend itself. And one would have   
   to really know what he is doing to replace it with something better.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)