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To: i-node who wrote (1017)	1/20/2003 3:00:26 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

What you originally said was "an inability to distinguish real life from fantasy." That's a very different thing from " the inability of both to distinguish what is realistically feasible from what is not" And one can be perfectly capable of distinguishing what is realistically feasible in the present and still strive for something better than that. One can have as one's goal an ultimate success. Or one can have as one's goal moving the dialogue a bit in one's direction -- much in the way a priest will exhort people to a certain standard of conduct knowing they will never totally achieve it but believing that striving for the unattainable will still be an improvement over the present. And, BTW, conservatives have no lack of belief in utopian solutions. They are just different utopian solutions.