<if you let Ray Duray poison your mind about the US government, bad cess to both of you.>
Hello CB. Cynicism is my middle name and it's many decades since I developed a very circumspect attitude to the USA government [and of course all governments]. It was hilarious when the Office of Disinformation news was prime time.
My recent favourite [before the Iraq invasion] was some USA official saying [perhaps not a precise quote, but the meaning is exact] "Well, who would you believe, Saddam or the USA?" in regard to WMDs. I had to snigger and had already decided that in that instance, Saddam seemed more credible to me and so it has turned out to be.
My cynicism, scientific curiosity, boundary condition testing, first principle analysis, deciding for myself and seeing original data have served me very well, time after time after time, in all spheres [Globalstar being a notable exception where my interpretation of how those running the thing would react to market failure was simply wrong, which is a warning to me that Jay might well be right and my expectation of how officials and the mob will react to financial exigencies could be plain wrong].
I find Ray vituperatively disagrees with me often enough, so it's not as though I'm an inner sanctum acolyte.
In NZ, the government is "them". I'm not one for the collectivist concept as we have in NZ. I'm in the Libertarian camp. Which is not to deny there is an us. The us who I identify with is the we who interact on a voluntary basis of self-determination. I think that's the great divide in human relationships.
It's the transition from dominance hierarchies based on territoriality, found wealth, tribal DNA and chieftainship to the Christian concept of universal humanity based on love, leaving the supernatural aspects aside which I disagree with, though I'm pretty sure nature has built into it a teleological process leading to omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence with non-DNA consciousness, which is under construction via the synapses of cyberspace.
I'm okay with Ray. Heck, even Yiwu is okay. She just has a few wacky ideas which she'll correct with understanding more and leaving behind the old conficatory dominance hierarchy tribal concepts she expounds. Malcolm has excommunicated me for being an evil racist [SI "ignore"] but I'm sure he'll come around. I'm not really racist or sexist or even homophobic. Heck, some of my best friends are female, ethnic and my best man was a poofter.
Thanks for trying to save me from myself.
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