{"id":1840,"date":"2009-09-15T05:52:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T13:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2009-09-15T05:52:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T13:52:55","slug":"the-dalai-lama-another-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1840","title":{"rendered":"The Dalai Lama, another view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News that President Obama has said that he might meet with the Dalai Lama reminded me of an analogy I made years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"Dalai Lama\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/3922316075\/dalai-lama.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2517\/3922316075_d0c68c9aa6_m.jpg?resize=153%2C235\" alt=\"Dalai Lama\" width=\"153\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tibet is to China today what the &#8220;Indian Nations&#8221; were to the USA in the nineteenth century.\u00a0 Tibet&#8217;s old agrarian and nomadic culture cannot survive against China&#8217;s modern bureaucratic capitalism.\u00a0 It is very similiar to the way the Navaho culture could not survive against the expansion of the United States &#8220;Empire of Wealth.&#8221;\u00a0 It is sad that old cultures have to die for newer ones to thrive but it is the case.\u00a0 In the long run the cultures that have survived have been those that offered their citizens the most security, opportunity\u00a0 and freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"sitting bull\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/3922316301\/sitting-bull.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2432\/3922316301_808b06b0f3_m.jpg?resize=150%2C234\" alt=\"sitting bull\" width=\"150\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dalai Lama traveling in the USA to plead his lost cause is similar to Indian Chiefs touring the European capitals in the 1880&#8217;s.\u00a0 It is sad and nostalgic.\u00a0 We all wish that things didn&#8217;t have to change, but nomadic, agrarian societies cannot deliver medicines that save children&#8217;s lives and modern western capitalistic democracies can.\u00a0 <em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News that President Obama has said that he might meet with the Dalai Lama reminded me of an analogy I made years ago. Tibet is to China today what the &#8220;Indian Nations&#8221; were to the USA in the nineteenth century.\u00a0 Tibet&#8217;s old agrarian and nomadic culture cannot survive against China&#8217;s modern bureaucratic capitalism.\u00a0 It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-tG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}