More Zen Meditation

Following on the last post, here’s another one from the Zen Master:

If multiculturalists are correct that that the non-Western cultures are of greater moral stature than the oppressive West, then why did none of the non-Western cultures ever practice multiculturalism ?

Quite honestly, I don’t care if a culture practices inclusion, as long as it advances science. As it so happens, cultures that do practice inclusion do so because their mindset is eclectic and evolutionary (in terms of ideas), which also happens to be the best societal fit for the scientific mindset, but the multi-cultural part is an unanticipated side effect that ultimately I do not give a rat’s about.

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Happy Thanksgiving

All best wishes for Thanksgiving to our American friends from this side of the Pond. To be honest, it ought to be a British festivity as well. They were English, were they not?

Kennewick Man Update

Moira Breen reports.

UPDATE: In the comments, DanTdaxp flags two posts (here and here) on this topic from Catholicgauze.
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Awaiting the Day

My friend Robert has a thoughtful post about how the Miami Cuban-American community will greet news of Castro’s death.

Minor Aggregation from Our Roll

Jim Miller notes the varying definition of what we might think of as a given – what is North America? Of course, we are less surprised by the evasive definition of “inching up.”