joedees@bellsouth.net Fri 2002/09/06 08:30 AM wrote:
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Either Cybermind finds you as bizarre and distasteful as we do, or none
of us would desire to subscribe to it.
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[Blunderov]
I must assume that the "we" above is of the editorial variety. Speaking
for myself. I certainly do not find Scatflinger distasteful and as for
"bizarre"; I much prefer it to "mediocre" or "boring".
Perhaps this is a good time to observe that there have been some very
remarkable conspiracies in America's recent history, the Kennedy
assassination and the Watergate Scandal to name but two. It is by no
means unreasonable to suspect that there exists in American political
culture a definite penchant for such covert machinations.
If one considers these facts and also takes into account the fact that
citizens of democracies are well known to be reluctant to go to war,
then it is reasonable for such citizens to be extremely skeptical of
everything their leaders say about war.
This skepticism does sometimes, even frequently, get completely carried
away it is true. The way to deal with this is not by dismissing all such
claims out of hand on the specious basis that they are "conspiracy
theories", but by applying and disseminating the rational tools with
which the wheat may be separated from the chaff.
Go Scatflinger! I'll have my quotes medium-rare.
Warm regards
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