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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (9289)3/26/2002 2:22:04 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 13020
 
"For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation. Nations, by law, are solitary, self-centered, withdrawn into themselves. There is no such thing as affection between nations, and certainly no nation ever loved another. They bawl insults from their doorsteps, defecate into whole oceans, snatch all the food, survive by detestation, take joy in the bad luck of others, celebrate the death of others, live for the death of others....
"It does not signify that man is a sparse, inhuman thing at his center. He's all right. It only says what we've always known and never had enough time to worry about, that we haven't yet learned how to stay human when assembled in masses."

-Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell

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Re: Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Well, then surely I've got a lot of cuddly buddies in amongst the fascists and imperialists at SI after all. Gosh, I feel so much better now. Do you think they have my best interests in mind when they suggest to me a permanent vacation to Cuba or China?