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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (579)9/9/2002 4:26:03 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Respond to of 7689
 
Hey, dawg, I didn't make that mess, I just found. (Actually, E found it, so blame her!)

I like this part:
In other words - unless Europe stops the United States - no other economy than a free-market economy will exist on this planet, no form of state other than a nation state will exist on this planet, and no form of social life other than a liberal society. No political ideal or innovation, which can not secure majority support in a democracy, will ever again be realised. All humans will live in a liberal market democracy, no human will ever experience any other way of life, and no artefact or social form will exist, except those which are compatible with a a liberal market democracy. That does not necessarily mean, that there will be a McDonalds in every village. But the prospect of indefinite planetary stagnation is far worse anyway, and the possible preservation of cultural diversity can not justify it.