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echo: philos
to: KEITH KNAPP
from: DAVID MARTORANA
date: 1998-03-17 13:13:00
subject: `Inner Fatherland`

 ++> Inspired by some Keith Knapp words to Frank Masingilll
 ++> on "Inner Fatherland"
 
 KK> .....True enough.  A century ago the existence of "races" was
 KK> so obvious to people that they had to find solutions.  Today
 KK> we know
                        ....S O M E   do!
 
 KK> that genetically there is no such thing as "race,"  and that
 KK> we all have an instinctive tendency to fear and hate anyone who
 KK> looks different than we do.  That is the basis of racism.
 
     ......"racism" (distinctionisms) may have a "nature wisdom"
     purpose buried deeper or between genes we are not yet privy to-
     ....the "e" microscope has its limits even when it knows what
     it is supposed to be looking for .
 
 KK> When a person is desperately awaiting an organ for an organ transplant,
 KK> doctors know they must have an organ from a donor who is genetically
 KK> as close as possible, or the organ will be rejected by the body.
 KK> It is not unusual that the donor whose organ is genetically
 KK> closest to that of the donee is from another "race."
 
 KK> Take any two African gorillas from different social groups, and
 KK> you will find more genetic 'distance' than you find between
 KK> any two humans _anywhere on earth_.  "Race' is a fiction based
 KK> on trivial physical characteristics that trigger our instinctive
 KK> hatred of people outside of our tribe.
 
          .....a definition whose time is pregnant.....?
 
 KK> There is a modern explanation for this xenophobia, this instictive
 KK> need to support the Cowboys versus the Broncos, this instinctive
 KK> hatred of people with slanted eyes or chocolate skin, or a language
 KK> we don't understand: no one can survive alone on the savannah or
 KK> the forest, but a group can survive quite well.  So those who
 KK> instinctively formed groups were those who survived.
 
  Now that the productive elements of society are getting away
  from "xenophobia", we migrate out to a yet next level of
  "under-racism", (xenotransplantation) the surgical-ish manipulation
  of other-species-flesh. Initially primitive to produce non rejectionable
  human bent organs; thence unto "Erector Set" novels and exotic necessities.
             .......yes!  nature has, perhaps, reason to fear us ...
      ....even a pig with a PHD and a portly human raised for hamburger-
      ....no more instinctive hateful needs, just playful translations
      into FUN GAME formats ...   !!!
           ,,
      .... @@ ... Dave
 
      ....from one frying pan into the next....
 
                      ......just some silly speculationettes...!!!
                  ......it can't happen here ....not on our watch!
 
 
 
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