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And lo on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:51:40 -0000, stbenge <stb### [at] hotmail com>
did spake, saying:
> 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)?
You mean that terrorist action against the government ;-)
> That was quite a revolution! It actually made a difference.
Yeah, but that was in ye olden days when there were only 50 people living
in the New World, any event such as a cow kicking something was considered
a big deal then.
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Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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