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To: TWICK who wrote (3449)	5/6/2001 9:23:46 PM
From: tradermike_1999	Respond to of 74559

These people, it's no mystery where they come from. You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it could split atoms with its desire, you build egos the size of cathedrals, fiberopticly connect the world to every-eager-impulse, grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green gold-played fantasies until every human becomes an aspiring emperor! Becomes his own God! Where can you go from there? And as for scrambling from one deal to the next, who's got his eye on the planet? As the air thickens, the water sours, even the bees honey takes on the metallic taste of radioactivity--and it just keeps coming! And it just keeps coming! Faster and faster! There's no chance to think, to prepare, it's `buy futures, sell futures' when there is no future!! We've got a runaway train, boy!! Devil's Advocate John Milton played by Al Pacino Was a fair movie...but I remember this line and scene. Powerful stuff. A nation of fat people just like the jogger.

To: TWICK who wrote (3449)	5/7/2001 8:46:07 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The Devil is well known for trying to make us feel unwarranted despair. Split atoms, cathedrals, and fiber optic cables are not hell, nor are they heaven. Man is constantly involved in the drive to improve his condition. Clean air, clean water, even clean honey, are things we all want, too, along with our cathedrals and fiber optic cables. It's cheaper to build clean industry in the beginning than it is to clean up the mess later - and forcing industries to build clean processes puts the cost on the user, which is where it belongs. Despair not - the fight is worth fighting, and the goal is worth achieving. Don't listen to the naysayers, the purveyors of doom, the death people. We can have cathedrals and clean water, fiber optic cables and clean air, split atoms and clean honey. I don't usually get so metaphorical - but pessimism annoys me.:)