(part 1 of 20) Olympic Torch in San Francisco April 9th 2008

I wish that both sides, Tibetan-nationalists as well as Chinese-nationalists would realize the following

(a) "(The Tragedy of the age) is not that men are poor-- all men know something of poverty; not that men are ignorant-- what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of other men."
~W.E.B. Dubois

(b) "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
~Socrates

(c)"in our tenure on this planet, we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage: propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders...all of which put our survival in some doubt"

"national boundaries are not evident when we view the earth from space. phonetic, ethnic, or religious, or national identifications are a little difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent, fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars"
~Carl Sagan

i know that i am probably being too idealistic for the zeitgeist (zeitgeist = spirit of the times) of: the developed world + China in the year 2008...this zeitgeist of prideful and often foolish nationalism...

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