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PAX_AMERICANA_NIGHTMARE

                                             September 13, 2007

A quotation from
"A Space in Place" (1996)
by Gary Snyder:

From the essay
"Exhortations for Baby Tigers"

     "How tempting it will be for some
     North American leaders to look on
     this as an opportunity to have 'one
     world run by one world power' --
     total hegemony -- the complete Roman
     Empire of the twenty-first century.
     It would be launched under the
     rationalization of some need for a
     'Pax Americana.'  What a nightmare.
     Not because the United States is
     particulary evil, but because there
     should *never* be one world power.
     We need planetary diversity in
     nations as much as we need human
     diversity in society or biological
     diversity in the forest." p.207


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