Jeff Knaebel would have us remember Gandhi. It appears that Knaebel is an emigrant of conscience; and on that basis alone deserves a reading, whatever you may think of his ideas.
The romanticisation of the Indian villager sounds, well, romantic, until you realise that a large number of them live in utter poverty which was, in Gandhi's view, a form of violence. Everytime I see the desperate poverty in Mumbai, for instance, I have the opposite proximate feeling - an admiration of America based on the fact that it has, for the most part, been able to give its citizenry the basic decencies of life.
The romanticisation of the Indian villager sounds, well, romantic, until you realise that a large number of them live in utter poverty which was, in Gandhi's view, a form of violence. Everytime I see the desperate poverty in Mumbai, for instance, I have the opposite proximate feeling - an admiration of America based on the fact that it has, for the most part, been able to give its citizenry the basic decencies of life.
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