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Dear Dr. Audrey Manning
Many thanks for such a thought provoking post that should touch any one's heart if he really has any heart at all. I have also read another of your posts in Mukta-Mona that clearly shows how nationalism can be bad.
"----who is more important to the overall running of society?" Not many people in the forum will appreciate the significance of this radical question of yours. Many of these 'highly qualified" debaters/preachers who were pure careerists in their student life are now well settled in an affluent society and have unlimited leisure to "serve" the distressed humanity. In real sense, I doubt, these self-centered people can do any good to the society other than establishing themselves as "great" intellectuals and activists. They are at best a little bit better than the paper tigers.
We had a great man named Rabindranath Tagore who received Nobel prize in literature in 1913. During his 80 years' life time (1861-1941) he saw so much. He saw nationalism of Germany and Japan and other major powers of his time. Your views about nationalism coincided with his.
Who is more important to the overall running of society? In many of his poems and other writings he has told us that the toiling masses are playing the most important roles in running of society. Believe me or not, he dropped out of school when he was a sixth grader.
His life also testifies to your assertion that "the humans needed to make the society work usually cannot, or do not wish to, master the high academic standards required of PhDs, MDs, lawyers and engineers etc."
With kindest regards
-Subimal Chakrabarty
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