On Tuesday 17 April 2001  1:00 pm, Betty B wrote:
> In a message dated 04/17/2001 7:40:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> writes:
> > it's a battle for minds and hearts. it is fought one person at a
> > time looks like you won at lease one.
>
> Yeah, I think humor gets them.  I really shouldn't have posted
> that, but maybe that's a lesson because it did get at least one
> other person's attention.

Humour is always important. From this side of the pond I can't
actually detect all that much difference between the Republican and
Democrats, just a different set of multi-national companies get the
go ahead to rape a different part of the planet!!

(UK's gone the same way post Thatcherism - its hard to detect a
difference between Blairite Labour and Caring Tories).

I like to see Darwinism at a more subtle level, in that it is
evidence of the success of co-operation, both between an organism and
its environment, and within that organisms society. (You can see
adaption as a form of cooperation, coopoerating with the
environment). All societies start to break down when this ethos of
cooperation is replaced by a stronger concern for "self" (or "my
family") - capitalism worries me.

Perhaps I'm just a tired, confused, old socialist (lapsed nihilist),
whose days of trying to convince anyone they're wrong, have long
since passed. A Chief Petty Officer (Navy) friend of mine used to say
"Never touch a mans' Rum, Bum, Baccy or Politics, and you'll have a
happy ship!!!". ("Chief" once chopped off a 2 million pound sonar
array from the back of his Destroyer with an axe, because the captain
screwed up the deployment pattern and fouled the lines which were
dragging the stern down.)

>
> I guess humor is a serious business after all.
>
> OR...maybe I'm just going through 'the change,' didja ever think of
> that?  I don't care though.  Bring on the mustache...I've got Nads!
>
> God bless Australia!

And all who sail in her!!!


Cheers

Deri