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To: CAtechTrader who wrote (14470)	11/11/2000 11:14:17 AM
From: Jill	Respond to of 65232

Cat, I've appreciated reading your posts the last few days, I know you find this very disturbing. I view it ultimately as a spectacle that Peter Marin elucidated in his book, Freedom and Its Discontents amazon.com "Marin suspects that once Americans achieved freedom we assumed that all the rest would fall into place by some natural and inevitable chain reaction. We would gradually begin to respect each other and ourselves; ethics and morality would flow from our inate, human inclinations; the civil institutions of our democracy would assure the dispensation of fairness and opportunity within a moral framework. But "freedom in itself guarantees nothing; it is merely the beginning of a task; it is itself a question: how shall we live ?"" He doesn't think we've done a good job of it, to say the least.