> From David's post:
>
> Lamm writes, "The individual who
> identifies with the most recent of the principle ideologies thereby
> identifies with man's most advanced needs, but in doing so DOES NOT
> REJECT all the preceeding ideologies listed in the taxonomical order
> of
> their appearance. He remains with them and they remain with him...The
> ideologies of the hiest needs incorporate those of the basic needs."
>
> Or as Walford put it "It is a functional necessity, the later phases
> depend for their existence upon the continuing functional presence of
> the earlier ones".
>
> Clark writes:
> Can't you see that these two interpretations of the levels do not
> agree
> with your "blindness" of the social level to the intellectual level?
>
[David Buchanan] I can assure you that they do not contradict
the blindness axiom. The most advanced levels can understand the earlier
ones because they are still present, but the early phases can't see
beyond themselves, just as your sex organs don't understand fidelity.
See what I mean. You can look back, but your forward vision is limited
to the present phase.
And please don't mistake my objection to the bombings as mere
Truman bashing. Please don't mistake my reference to the deaths of women
and children as mere emotionalism. I think your characterization of the
Japanese population as a bunch of child terrorist bombers is a little
less than rational. Yes, they were certainly desperate and extremely
pissed off, but who wouldn't be? By the time those bombs dropped Japan
had less than 400 war planes and even fewer boats. They we so out of war
materials that all they could do was float paper ballons across the
Pacific with the hope that the fire-bombs would fall on something that
mattered. It was already over by then. The acts of desperation you site
to paint them as monsters would be seen as heroic, if you were Japanese.
We give medals of honor to soldiers who sacrifice their lives for our
county, but kamakazees are just insane, right?
And the whole point is that the US and the Leauge of Nations had
already condemned the Japanese for their atrocities committed against
civilians in Manchuria and then turned around a few years later and
committed those same crimes. They knew at the time.
DMB
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