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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, ND <nmd65@...> wrote:
>
> Thank you very much for this.
Oh you're very welcome. I'm just glad nobody
accused me of trolling! :^)
It's just that I get so tired of Kelkar's
misrepresentations.
> Such blind Pan-Hindu views are of course another
> manifestation of navel-gazing, at which India, for
> some reason, seems very adept. And such views, as
> well, are arrogant nationalism disguised as
> intellectual curiosity.
You probably see more of the Indian sort first-
hand simply because you are Indian (I'm assuming),
but I doubt that Indians are really any more
adept at it. I'm afraid that it's a universal
tendency, because very little that I saw in my
time on Kalyanaraman's list wasn't familiar
to me from many years of arguing with various
home-grown (U.S.) nationalistic, racist, and/or
fundamentalist types.
I finally gave up long time ago trying to reason
with the latter sort, and should have had the
same good sense once I found out what was going
on with Kalyanaraman and his friends.
(Although I did meet a few nice people on that
list, and so I guess the experience wasn't a
complete loss!)
> But remember, nationalists greatly loathe and fear
> laughter. Perhaps such a response is ultimately the
> best.
Yes, I think that's true. Being treated as a
serious threat really only tends to bolster the
nationalist's, or really the ideologue of any
kind's, feeling of self importance. I think we
know of two online cliques who each feeds off
the hostility of the other in exactly this way,
each claiming to be spied upon by the other,
each eagerly reporting any mention of itself by
the other, each in the process only increasing
the apparent importance of the other. ;^) I
think Kelkar is just trying to get cybalist to
join in on the "fun".
I guess I had better stop cutting and pasting
IndianCivilization messages to cybalist, lest
I be accused of the same! :^)
David