Killing the Buddha god for the godless

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Mon Jul 23 00:39:26 PDT 2001


Jeff Sharlet, Co-Editor Besides killing the Buddha, Jeff Sharlet writes about history, philosophy, and religion for The Chronicle of Higher Education. The former editor of Pakn Treger, an award-winning magazine of Jewish history and literature, Sharlet has also written for numerous regional and national publications, worked in a high plains casino, and, like most people, broken nine of the ten commandments.

http://www.killingthebuddha.com/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jeffrey.Sharlet at chronicle.com> To: <mob4glob at dojo.tao.ca>; <ocap at tao.ca>; <stoptheWTO at topica.com>; <mac_quebec2001 at topica.com>; <actionfamily at mailbox.as>; <friendlyanarchistsleague at topica.com>; <DestroyIMF at topica.com>; <bus10 at yahoogroups.com>; <a-infos-en at ainfos.ca> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 12:17 AM Subject: killing the buddha


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> From Killing the Buddha (http://www.killingthebuddha.com), an online
> magazine about religion and politics, comes an analysis the killing of
> Carlo Giuliani and the religious rhetoric used by the capitalists, and,
> yes, anti-globalists too.
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> It's definitely a simplification of the movement and its goals, but I'm
> hoping it'll get folks who don't normally pay attention to us to think
> again -- and encourage anti-globalization activists to think about and
make
> use of the religious metaphors at hand. Forgive the generalizations and
the
> seemingly neutral tone, and see if there's anything of interest:
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> "Free Market Martyrdom" at
> http://www.killingthebuddha.com/damn_nation/free_market_martyrdom.htm, on
> http://www.killingthebuddha.com.
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> Jeff Sharlet
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> P.S. Killing the Buddha isn't an anti-Buddhist thing -- we take our name
> from the Buddhist parable about moving past complacent belief.
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