And don't forget, THEY are watching you!

This is "war", after all.


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From: "Bob Dayle" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: anti-intellectualism, "fundamentalism", tax cuts,
consumerism/materialism - oh my!!


> Ross,... and others,
>
> You make cogent points for conchology and malacology in particular, and
science
> generally, in all four cases:
>
> 1.) Since most "right wingers" are apparently not adept at science, they
fear it
> and, fearing it, they either try to ignore it or hide from it or, failing
that,
> decapitate it.
> 2.) See 1.) and substitute "fundamentalists" for "right wingers."
> 3.) Until this most recent conservative admistration, minimal governmental
> interfacing WAS the norm. Now, I hear the cry (from Plato's REPUBLIC),
"Let not
> the peoples' friend be lost unto them." Meaning, keep us in power forever,
that
> we may protect you fully. What followed that call is remembered well by
those
> who have read The Republic.
> 4.) In our American surfeit, we, above nearly all others, should be
altruistic,
> almost to a fault. While most other parts of the (third) world scrabble
for a
> living, we have lots,... and then some. A little stewardship on our part
isn't
> asking too much.
>
> Let's hope that the pendulum doesn't swing too far to the other side,
though,
> because too much of anything is still too much!
>
> Bob Dayle
>
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