On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Karl Alexis McKinnon wrote:

>         As a member of a cabal, I think you're missing the midle
> ground.  A conspiracy is an authoritarian (usual via oligarchy) organized
> plan to get "it" done.  A cabal is a loose organization of people who
> have common goals.  Low fat is part of the cabal.
>(snip)  I would
> not be too quick to denounce a cabalistic theory, as there is a lot of
> money to be made by keeping people afraid and ignorent.  We live in an
> anticivilization where the tools of communication are actually tools of
> misinformation.  The best thing to do to keep yourself informed is to
> never read a newspaper and turn off your television.

Actually, I hold the reverse: the best way to keep yourself informed is to
read lots of different sources of information, so that you're not just
getting one point of view.  The TV and Newspaper certainly shouldn't be
one's only source of information, but they are worthwhile.

If I weren't an obsessive reader, I never would have stumbled across
low-carb!

Corbie