kottkeisms

[scottobear]

Amidst the coverage of the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, no one appears to have noticed the irony: that all this righteous outrage is aimed at preserving the graven images of a man who built a doctrine out of the struggle to cast aside material things.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

quite right... but the anger is still about a statue of a man who'd probably wouldn't sweat it.