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To: MNI who wrote (12037)	6/15/1999 6:41:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

MNI, there I catch you! I cannot help, I would like to help him. Sometimes he has brilliant ideas,... Such as ?? Please elaborate! BTW, I knew you'd find my French/Denard/Mossad scenario about the bombing of two US embassies in East Africa ''brilliant''! LOL!

To: MNI who wrote (12037)	6/15/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

I agree that Gustave is intelligent and has a quality that makes him somewhat likeable, which is why I usually treat him cordially, but sometimes he is exasperating, and comes dangerously close to something worse... If you are correct about Europe, it has become much more like the States than I had imagined, and is developing the sort of meritocratic, mobility- of- class mentality that is typical, if not universal, in the States... Connections with the powerful are, of course, still useful anywhere, but in a meritocratic society, people who rely on them excessively are regarded as little better than starlets "sleeping their way to the top"... Absolutely, the educated middle- classes are the "secret arbiters" of history, even in earlier times, when scribes and scholars were likeliest to be drawn from their ranks... Folklore generally refers to "rural legends" primarily. It is usually focused on the traditions of pre- literate peasant culture, as in the collection of tales by the Grimms, although it can be extended to all sorts of informal traditions common to "the people", including urban legends. In fact, the main quibble would be that urban legends have not been established long enough. I said that part of my discussion with Derek might be called "folkloric" because the ultimate extension of the term might include the common, not necessarily true, opinions of various matters that we often pick up through somewhat obscure mechanisms... Yes, in this context "partisanship" simply means gaining advantage for one's political party, which is not necessarily wrong, but is unseemly in certain cases. The "water's edge" is, indeed, a reference to the geographical isolation of the United States, and must have been coined after things had settled down in our relations with Mexico... Cordially, Neo