[Magdalen] Opinion piece From Diana Butler Bass NYTimes

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Jay>> What she is saying is that this is the old Roman model, and we need a 
new
> one. I'm beginning to get that the more I study Eastern thought, somehow.



Right on Jay! Thinly veiled reference to a 'system' that has been well 
exploited in the 'western world'. One of debts and favors and allegiances. 
One of knowing power and being wary of it, or beholden to it.  Think Nero.

Lynn

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