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To: lawdog who wrote (16660)	4/7/2000 12:35:00 AM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 769670

lawdog, Extremes of any sort are bad. What else is new? I didn't advocate an extreme issue. BTW, since we have no choice in the matter, the best time to be alive is when we are. The point of the reference to the pendulum is that it, and the extremes along with it, exist. Voting for any candidate will not change that. ~H~

To: lawdog who wrote (16660)	4/7/2000 12:59:00 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Modern Nazi Germany was a gas! Hard to choose between it and Russia, well, maybe Uganda or Communist China. Guess you had to be there to call it the best of times!

To: lawdog who wrote (16660)	4/7/2000 11:36:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Victorian Era would have been preferable to the Renaissance; the period of the Roman Empire would have been preferable, for those within its orbit, to the Dark Ages, when order in the West broke down; Bismark's Germany was better than Hitler's; the Russian Empire at the turn of the century was better than the Soviet Union under Stalin; Egypt and Greece have never recovered their ancient glories; the apogee of serious concert music was in the 19th century, and there have been few great operas added to the repertoire since 1900; realistic painting has never again reached the height of 17th century Dutch art; the last artistic avant- garde worth mentioning was almost 30 years ago; there are few, if any, statesmen of the stature of the Founders in contemporary America.......I will stop here..... The point is that history is a complex affair, that change is not always for the better, and that to progress one must build on solid foundations.....