Lone wolves George Soros (AP photo) and Canis lupus (ZSI Calcutta photo)
"We can’t impose our will on the world!" asserted George Soros, the rabid anti-Bush meddler who is now attempting to impose his own will on the world by promoting a "change of regime" in the United States, reports NewsMax. Soros -- blogged early and often here -- is the fellow who's exploiting the loophole in campaign finance laws that lets billionaires donate as much as they want to private political lobbies:
After a rousing introduction by Sen. Hillary Clinton, multibillionaire George Soros wasted little time in excoriating President Bush in a speech Thursday.
Bush’s war on terrorism has turned Americans “from victims to perpetrator,” he said to loud applause from the “Take Back America” audience, organized by the leftist group Campaign for America’s Future.
In his soft-spoken, lightly accented voice, the Hungarian-born Soros, who made his fortune trading in and manipulating the world’s markets, described how in his opinion “the war on terrorism as conducted by Bush has since caused more innocent victims than the victims of the [9/11] attack on America.”
At one point, he compared the “Bush Doctrine” with fascism and communism. “The common ground between fascists and communists is that they both want to impose their point of view on the world.” Soros said the Bush Doctrine was similarly aimed at imposing a point of view on the world.
Soros told the attentive audience how he feared the new emerging brand of “American supremacists,” grounded in misguided notions of “social Darwinism,” adhering to a primitive principle of “survival of the fittest” rather than a spirit of cooperation.
Speaking of misguided notions, Darwinism doesn't preclude cooperation. Far from it. "Fittest" refers to a species' survival strategy. Both lone wolves* and ant colonies have survived the great winnowing process of natural history because each has pursued what turned out to be a successful survival strategy. Our own species' strategy encompasses both narrowly selfish and broadly cooperative behavioral patterns.
Contrast Canis soros' evasive look with Panthera tigris' steady gaze.
*Canis lupus, like other members of the dog family, is really a pack animal. Lone behavior is more common in the cat family, but Soros lacks the moral clarity of Felidae. We chose the "lone wolf" metaphor because Soros is such a dog.
I agree; a cooperative peaceful, critical thinking approach is the answer for our survival.
Posted by: m.schaeppi | December 12, 2006 at 08:50 PM