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Response to lauding correspondence from Pakistan:

Perhaps we got better at laying in nuts-and-bolts development infrastructure than feudal-to-modern transitioning intellectual infrastructure. Much of the world needs a new poetics — new heroes, new legends — that connects deeply with the heart and sets them bravely against both the tyrant and the miscreant.

While it’s good seeing Pakistan’s Defense Force finally sanding away the Taliban, one wishes for far, far less disruptive methods (you have a lot of refugees moving about, many with freshly shaven faces) and intellectually more certain ones — in cultural development as well as intelligence – as well. It really is a kind of person that embraces or promotes violence and terrorism to achieve ends in which they themselves must be perpetually the star of the show

The “win” is toward the middle of humanity, not toward those who go against the grain of nature in human aspiration and adjustment.

However, forming the martial power of the moderate in their majority has proven most difficult.  For the sticks that are fear and punishment and the carrots that are bribery and patronage, “loyalty” (to the ruthless with guns) trumps integrity throughout the fronts of the Islamic Small Wars: it seems one either flees the “God Mob”, dies fighting it, or succumbs to its ultimately self-serving political program.

Among my favorite bulwarks for making this point: http://www.reuters.com/investigates/iran/#article/part1 – 11/11/2013.

My correspondent asked, “So very true, but where do find them?”

Well, whether legends or writers, my response —

We settle down to creative writing on behalf of the more innately fair, forgiving, and just of humanity. With that kind of writing, God helps, and I do not believe the contributors need to be raving bipolar narcissistic megalomaniacs themselves — just good people with great empathy and strength and some connection — the spooky part — with life, the universe, and a little bit the miracle that is God.

You’re among the writers or among the facilitators of such writers.

Our now familiar “malignant narcissists” count on “information control” — censorship, ignorance, repression — to get away with doing what they do.  The way to fight back: open the mouth: speak!

And those possessed of abundant empathy and integrity among the articulate and forceful: do your thing.

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