Comments on: The invisible country of SEA http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2007/11/13/the-invisible-country-of-sea/ New perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:28:26 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: aiontay http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2007/11/13/the-invisible-country-of-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-228041 aiontay Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:51:07 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2007/11/13/the-invisible-country-of-sea/#comment-228041 Yes, intellectual arrogance indeed! To suggest that the regime needs guidance from the mafia when they've got Lo Hsin Han and (until recently) Khun Sa to advise them. Yes, intellectual arrogance indeed! To suggest that the regime needs guidance from the mafia when they’ve got Lo Hsin Han and (until recently) Khun Sa to advise them.

]]> By: Grasshopper http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2007/11/13/the-invisible-country-of-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-227927 Grasshopper Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:53:13 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2007/11/13/the-invisible-country-of-sea/#comment-227927 If only the world was run by philosopher kings... but its not- it's run by big business - so I can see the logic of these potential philosopher kings: if you can't beat em' join em'! This commendable moral position could have only been given precedent by the <i>American</i> Association for Asian Studies who are the right civilized sort with a clear ethical($?!) basis for benevolent intent. If only the world was run by philosopher kings… but its not- it’s run by big business – so I can see the logic of these potential philosopher kings: if you can’t beat em’ join em’! This commendable moral position could have only been given precedent by the American Association for Asian Studies who are the right civilized sort with a clear ethical($?!) basis for benevolent intent.

]]> By: jonfernquest http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2007/11/13/the-invisible-country-of-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-227836 jonfernquest Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:09:02 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2007/11/13/the-invisible-country-of-sea/#comment-227836 "..the refusal of delegates to the EuroSEAS conference to adopt a [my] Resolution..." Do you believe in democracy or don't you? "...It is interesting to note that Naples is the homeland of the Camorra, the crime organisation responsible for drugs traffic and many other illegal activities in the region. Camorra bosses, like the currently imprisoned Raffaele Cutolo, who recently fathered a baby despite being denied congugal visiting rights for more than two decades, it is said by artificial insemination (his wife’s name is Immacolata!), have strong links with legal and illegal and semi-legal businesses (they run 2,500 illegal bakeries and are involved with illegal waste management as well), and the local extremely impoverished economy depends importantly on the Camorra. There is also an important business selling fake clothes on to the US market." Maybe this could have been a second resolution and why stop there? i think the real issue is intellectual arrogance, western intellectuals are but one little group/interest in a big wide world, whose self-conceived universal importance, is not universally recognised “..the refusal of delegates to the EuroSEAS conference to adopt a [my] Resolution…”

Do you believe in democracy or don’t you?

“…It is interesting to note that Naples is the homeland of the Camorra, the crime organisation responsible for drugs traffic and many other illegal activities in the region. Camorra bosses, like the currently imprisoned Raffaele Cutolo, who recently fathered a baby despite being denied congugal visiting rights for more than two decades, it is said by artificial insemination (his wife’s name is Immacolata!), have strong links with legal and illegal and semi-legal businesses (they run 2,500 illegal bakeries and are involved with illegal waste management as well), and the local extremely impoverished economy depends importantly on the Camorra. There is also an important business selling fake clothes on to the US market.”

Maybe this could have been a second resolution and why stop there?

i think the real issue is intellectual arrogance, western intellectuals are but one little group/interest in a big wide world, whose self-conceived universal importance, is not universally recognised

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