http://www.opendemocracy.net/a_general_observation_0 Comments for "A general observation..., " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/a_general_observation_0 Recent re-read "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius. Was struck by this passage, which seems particularly appropriate to this site... "Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall meet with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness - all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother (not in the physical sense, but as a fellow-creature similarly endowed with reason and a share of the divine); therefore none of those things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading. Neither can I be angry with my brother or fall foul of him; for he and I were born to work together, like man's two hands, feet, or eyelids, or like the upper and lower rows of teeth. To obstruct each other is against Nature's law - and what is irritation or aversion but a form of obstruction?"<div class="forum-topic-navigation"><a href="/someone_tell_the_president_the_war_is_over_0" class="topic-previous" title="Go to previous forum topic">‹ &quot;Someone Tell the President the War Is Over&quot;</a> <a href="/terror_against_democracy_52_anniversary_of_british_terrorism_0" class="topic-next" title="Go to next forum topic">TERROR AGAINST DEMOCRACY: 52 ANNIVERSARY OF BRITISH TERRORISM ›</a></div> http://www.opendemocracy.net/a_general_observation_0#comment American power &amp; the world democracy &amp; power Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:37:25 +0000 Matt Murrell 29724 at http://www.opendemocracy.net