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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (82478)	3/15/2003 10:33:27 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (3) of 281500

Hi Jacob Snyder; Re: "There is reflexive irritation, whenever Hawks get told the historical parallels to other failed Hawk ventures. They don't want to acknowledge those parallels, it damages their self-image." I don't think there's irritation, so much as a complete inability to imagine anything else than that their ethnic group is not only different from any other, but is superior. Superior ethnic groups do not have to worry about failure, they know they're superior, that their motives are pure, and that they will win in the end. By the way, NightOwl provides this fascinating read by Plato along this subject: Alcibiades, by Plato san.beck.org Of course the lessons of ancient Greece do not apply to the current situation. The ancients, after all, didn't have Jesus to guide them / didn't have an emperor descended from the Gods / were not the master race / didn't worship Allah / didn't understand the historical dialectic / whatever. -- Carl

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