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10 Oct 2024 23:19:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Where have all the flowers gone?  
From: stbenge
Date: 18 Jan 2008 17:51:42
Message: <47912d7e@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   However, unfortunately, the world just doesn't work that way. Wishing it
> did doesn't make it so. Crime won't stop by wishful thinking, the need for
> a police force (in all senses of the term, including at international level)
> doesn't go away by simply wishing so. Major problems aren't solved by
> protest marches (not in the long run anyways). Unfortunately even world
> hunger will not be solved by simply blindly throwing money to the problem.
> 
>   The basic problem I see with the hippie ideology is that it wishes the
> world was simple, while it isn't. The world is very complicated.

Are we past the point of being able to make a major democratic movement 
(as in the Boston Tea Party)? That was quite a revolution! It actually 
made a difference.

Sam


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