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To: RON BL who wrote (127548)	2/16/2001 6:12:46 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

I love both books. "1984" was a big influence on me when I was young. But I have thought for sometime that Huxley had a better idea of what things were coming to. Everyone deserves recreation, and there are levels of culture appropriate to every degree of ability and educational background. But we cannot, must not, become a purely frivolous culture, where human life has no more significance than the maintenance of social order and avoidance of pain, where all deep emotion is eschewed because it may cause us to weep. In my sophomore year at St. John's, I had an oral exam for the seminar class, and was asked my position on Stoicism. I said that I thought it was wrong, apathy was not an appropriate goal. There were some things that were supposed to upset us, we are meant to feel outrage at injustice, to grieve at catastrophe, to mourn loss, and so forth. I think there is such a thing as "just sentiment". The funny thing was that one examiner, who had taken her graduate degree in psychology, was irritated at me for disparaging artificial equanimity. She implied it was a morbid streak in me. Perhaps so, perhaps I am like John Savage, and will end as absurdly. At least I will not be like Nietzsche's Last Man, who is interested only in comfort and confronts anything challenging by blinking.......

To: RON BL who wrote (127548)	2/16/2001 6:57:50 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

RON you seem to have a considerable capacity for muddying information to serve some agenda you have. liberals are fond of saying that religion is the opiate of the masses . Name one public liberal, candidate, talk show host, pol, pundit or academic who has publicly stated that "religion is the opiate of the people" and meant it. In this country it's more like Opra is the religion of the people. That statement was coined by Karl Marx 150 yrs ago. Anticipating your response, if you have one, I would point out that there's a big difference between guarding the separation of church and state and advocating the abolition of religion.