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To: TobagoJack who wrote (43751)	12/21/2003 5:36:59 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Now we are definitely getting way OT..... Kind Sir, The inclusion of a glossary for those of us who aren't as intimately familiar with all your variant acronyms would be a blessing. I think I got the general drift down pretty well, though. And I agree with your analysis, in part. Perhaps your enigmatic combination of nihilism and optimism is preferable to my rather more pedestrian malthusian jeremiads and ritualistic rantin', rockin' and rollin'. I'll have to consider it. <g> W/R/T The Richter Scale of Abracadabras........ A most curious omission to your list is the Internet. Duh! Or perhaps since you're a nihilist, you rate it about a M=5? On an equal footing with Warren Beatty's "Shampoo" perhaps? I'm the sort who is an optimist about the Internet. I'm seeing signs that tell me it is at least a M=9 if not about to be an M=10. :) Case in point: Message 19608795 A glimpse at our future? I believe so. :) (Aside: He says as he backs away from the life preservers and jumps back into the fray.... compare -- the HMS Seyre, the masterly Russell Crowe's latest box office command would have been sunk following your prescription, sir. I prefer to do battle. For god, for country, for a while. )

To: TobagoJack who wrote (43751)	12/21/2003 9:24:46 AM
From: que seria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay a nihilist!?? C'mon Ray, he's a realist with first-hand knowledge of what happens to small objects that find themselves in the path of great waves. Most of them get swept up, tossed, crushed and buried in the debris. The difference with small humans in the path of socio-economic-political waves is that humans can learn from history, anticipate and prepare. Those of us who are both realistic and optimistic try to do that, but that doesn't mean we lose touch with the beauty around us. A nihilist wouldn't be wasting his time preparing. A fighting spirit made the U.S.A., but to assess what it will do for you (with your beliefs in today's U.S.), you must assess your fellow Americans. Noting (as you do) the stark contrast between your views and their own, I concur that Raymond will go down fighting. I will watch him go down fighting. I also expect this: I am figuring that the current cycle will eventually see us forced to gobble up some flavor of debt-engendered and energy crisis augmented economic depression flavored with a hint of stagflation and decorated with global currency regime change but see no nihilism in it; it is not so different from what your own posts point toward.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (43751)	12/21/2003 2:55:14 PM
From: BubbaFred	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

So it seems Ray is not quite as worldly as he needs to be. Instead, the anguished cries of an American homeboy with delusional perspectives, unable to accept the transformation and evolution. I, too, am eerily suspended in history and thinking how the great Europeans must have experienced and felt in late 1800's and early 1900's. The course of destiny is unfolding so dramatically and so furiously fast. But I am sad also, having convinced myself ten years ago, that Americana will be spreading goodness and generosity and prosperity to the rest of the world. As it unfolded, the third world has been maintained as peons worthy of subjugations as they have been for the last century under the Americana influence. There is no need to look beyond the closest neighbor to the south, and even worse yet in other parts of the world. Who ever dared to say that PolPot, Saddam and Marcos were the direct and indirect creations of Americana? The only exemplary exeptions spouted off loud and clear have been the selective breedings in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, composed of a collection of genetic pool with the right ethics and philosophies. What made them possible and their accomplishments were merely considered as consequences of Americana's goodwill but the roots of their success have never been studied, but should be and will be in due time. I myself cannot believe the transformation presently taking place, but am sitting back, watching, and enjoying this period of human history, and always trusting it will be good, better, and best for mankind.