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Pastimes : SARS - what next? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (257)	4/24/2003 8:15:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 1070

<While the disease is not widely spread in Caucasian countries at this time (those infected in Toronto are predominately Chinese), there may be some reason to consider ethnicity and differential immune-system functioning in response to disease.> Speak of the devil. It was only a few weeks ago I was thinking about symbiotic genocide as humans' most effective war weapon. Maoris suffered badly from European diseases, to which Europeans had become more or less immune. Sufficient to act as carriers rather than mortal victims. The actual death via conflict was negligible, though war stories make much better news than disease. Sar Wars has already got casualties over the Coalition of the Willing and will presumably soon make Iraq's losses look trivial too. Condoleezza Rice called China a strategic competitor and threatens them with nukes and the full panoply of USA military might. Meanwhile, a caucasian bug cuts loose and wreaks havoc. Unfortunately, the idea of strategic competitors in the human realm is old-style territorial alpha-male conquest and dominance hierarchy chimpoid behaviour. To me, it's humans versus the rest. The sooner we ditch the atavistic world of symbiotic genocide and outright war, the better I'll like it. A reconstituted UN is the way to do that. Pax Americana is just a boring old replay of 19th century empire, which is no way to run a railroad. Sure, I can play empire games too and do very well. I in fact own the American Empire, [a piece of it anyway], but I'd far prefer the Universal Human concept. Mqurice PS: Speak of the devil again. < <"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech in 1953 >http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=18881054>