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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (24199)	2/10/2004 4:21:09 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Boy O Boy! You are way way too pessimistic, aren't you? You lack faith in other folks being intelligent and perspicacious enough to be able to make good and valid judgements for themselves. Come on! You can't expect other people to be forever wallowing in shallows and miseries or be as ovine and parrot-like as you have been. The history of mankind is replete with conflicts in many fields of human endeavour resulting, in some instances, to humans attempting to annihilate one another. More often than not, the parties that thought they were right eventually found they were wrong or not so right after all and had to reject outright or modify their much cherished vision and ideals. Heraclitus once wrote: Change is ever becoming. In other words we don't live in a static world. Everything in it is ever evolving into something new and strange or undergoing a sea change. And Tennyson said, The old order changeth, yielding place to new; Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. And the great Shakespeare in (AS YOU LIKE IT) said something like, Nothing is really good or bad, only thinking makes it so." My thoughts and opinions may be outrageous and repugnant to some folks. Too bad! Democracy allows free speech and dissent, does it not? But, if truth be known, I believe it is the force of truth and logic of my presentations that scare, irk and rile biased, narrow-minded, ovine and parrot-like folks like you. It is a truism that the truth always hurts. Ah! But then, truth, like the surgical scalpel, always hurts. But it also often heals. To be able to see the big picture of events that culminated in "9/11" and its aftermath, you will have to be familiar, at the very least, with the history of the Middle East in the time of the Ottoman Empire (1300 -1919). Otherwise, your vision and understanding of things will always be coloured by the self-serving and biased media. You will, as you do now, accept what they tell the masses as the "gospel" truth. Result: you become an asshole and one of their "useful idiots". For example, we were told "9/11" was unprovoked. We now know that wasn't true. We were told Iraq had WMD & etc2. But we now know that the intelligence for that was biased and flawed. I know that busy country folks don't have the time to read the "good books" every day of the week. However, one last thought: "As you mind your till, so should you till your mind." Don't believe everything you are told by the media. Remember how the media attempted to discredit GATA and ignored its findings? By the way, you are not urged to accept my opinions. Unlike opinionated and self-important folks who get angry when others contradict them and call then names, I am often amused by folks who think I am a fool etc2. Like Gulliver, I find their arrows hurt me not one bit.