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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (10744)	2/21/2002 12:16:16 AM
From: MonsieurGonzo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11051

DJ> "The Invisible Messenger" " Individual human beings are distinctly different from one another... ...But, in the mass, we all seem to march to the same drumbeat. We conform, almost as if an invisible messenger appears among us from time to time and gently whispers commands that we all proceed to follow without reason. This is one of the most important lessons that we can learn from history. Human beings, in the mass, have alternating periods of elation and depression. They become belligerent in cycles, producing wars, revolutions, and civil strife; this mass murder is then followed by periods of passiveness, constriction, and inaction. At one period they will flock to the financial centers of the world and risk all their holdings on tulip bulbs, resort land, and that intangible called a stock certificate. At other times they are overwhelmed by plagues of doubt and they stampede to convert their assets into cash and gold. During one swing of the millennium's pendulum they elevate creativity to a function approaching godliness. The artist, the musician, the poet, become the prince of heaven. Later, ambitions, instincts, and morality are submerged in the darkest of ages. Why does our behaviour alternate with such regularity ? " - from *Cycles, 1971, p.46 ... ...book I picked up in an old shop in some small town while on vacation last week with MadameGonzo in the NoCal wine country; a quick and curious read (went well with Pinot Noir :) ultimately his thesis begs the question: cause, or effect ?* -Steve