East Timor and Kosovo

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>chris wrote:
>>>Why should the boundaries set by colonial countries, Portugal and the
>Netherlands, half a world away, have any legal or moral authority? Why
>should the border between east and west Timor be any more sacred than
>the border between Iraqand Kuwait, the latter clearly also being a
>product of colonialism.<<
>
>why indeed?  and i would suggest that talking about cultural or
>linguistic differences (or rather, as magellan did, of linguistic
>differences which arose from a clolonial history) amounts to adopting
>the same kind of infinite regress as any other attempt to legitimate
>borders, any national borders.
>Angela
>_________

Martin Heidegger wrote in "Letter on Humanism": "When philosophy attends to
its essence it does not make forward strides at all.  It remains where it
is in order to constantly think the Same."  'Deconstruction' of national
borders seems one such attempt to "constantly think the same."

Yoshie