Nobody Listens

clipped from www.davidwarrenonline.com Nobody listens to the Dalai Lama. By this I mean, hardly anyone in the West; in Beijing, I’m sure, his every statement is monitored carefully. In the West, Hollywood narcissists embrace him as a paragon of cool, but what he says seldom registers in the cool imagination. For instance, he is, like the Catholic Pope, among the most unambiguous opponents of contraception, abortion, and the “culture of death”; and has been as eloquent as the late Mother Teresa on the need to replace morally destructive bureaucratic welfare arrangements with direct acts of personal charity. On the question of sovereign independence for Tibet, it is worth noting that he does not seek it. He has little hope in the efficacy of big power arrangements to achieve real political goods, but focuses the struggle on actual human freedom. All we can add to this is a refusal to lie, or to accept the Beijing regime as “normal.”

I will admit I was shocked to see Pelosi actually sticking her neck out in at least minimalist fashion to support Tibet. But is she actually listening? Don't hold your breath, for then pigs could fly...