Comments on: Links, 7/9/09 http://www.ashokkarra.com/2009/07/links-7909/ On Poetry, Politics and Philosophy - A Sketch, An Intersection Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: thag http://www.ashokkarra.com/2009/07/links-7909/comment-page-1/#comment-3083 thag Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:20:23 +0000 http://www.ashokkarra.com/?p=2334#comment-3083 "Look. Another thing people here don’t understand is that it’s a hot region. It’s an emotionally hot region. Israel, too. The amount of yelling in Israel over things that don’t have to be yelled about is extraordinary. Blood runs hot. Maybe it’s the desert. I don’t know. People are governed by their emotions." This just seems amazing to me, because this has been said since, well, as far back as we know. It's not so different that what Herodotus would have said. I wonder what it will take... “Look. Another thing people here don’t understand is that it’s a hot region. It’s an emotionally hot region. Israel, too. The amount of yelling in Israel over things that don’t have to be yelled about is extraordinary. Blood runs hot. Maybe it’s the desert. I don’t know. People are governed by their emotions.”

This just seems amazing to me, because this has been said since, well, as far back as we know. It’s not so different that what Herodotus would have said. I wonder what it will take…

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