Re: Re. Vyasa insane!?!?
Bapa Rao (brao@pollux.usc.edu)
Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:02:15 -0700 (PDT)
> I will point to the current "culture wars" in America being
> spearheaded by the likes of Allan Bloom, William Bennett, Pat Robertson,
> Pat Buchanan et al. They too, have an implicit concept of "sanity"
> that is very much idealized Western-Christian-Capitalist in nature; other
> thought-systems are either beyond the pale or at best marginal. If I
> am going to criticize Vyasa (or equivalently, his times) as being insane, I
> have the responsibility to specify whether (to take one
> easily-available candidate) my standard of sanity is
Sorry about the unedited junk above in my previous messsage.
Bapa Rao