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To: TobagoJack who wrote (386)	9/11/2005 1:34:45 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217713

You touched the heart of the matter, TJ: "only workable if folks are pragmatic" If people were pragmatic we weren't where we are. To get out of here, double pragmatism is needed to compensate for the lack of it. What I see is pragmatism is being cut by half. I watch Euronews here. The Euros are trying to solve all the problems via political means. That when it was the powers that be that let the situation come to where it is today. You look to America and is the same thing. They see the executive as the root of all evils and expect the solution to come from the executive in mind. The powers that be planted in the minds fo the common men that they matter. And they believed. Only individuals' ingenuity will solve the problem. Is now time for every man for himself! As myself is concerned, being a guy who mistrust big power and big institutions (because I have seen useless governments and their useless policies in many parts fo the world) I'm not be swept by the storm. I'm vaccinated!

To: TobagoJack who wrote (386)	9/11/2005 1:51:30 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217713

I've witnessed 3 countries where people saw the storm approaching. They reacted, first by denying. Then when they recognized as inevitable, they calculated that the time it would take for IT to correct were a matter of less than a year. BRAZIL 1982: I told 4 years, as the bare minimum. People to whom I articulated that were and total desbelief and got even angry at my realistic approach. It took 12 years. NIGERIA: 1983 I didn't tell. My take was, it wouldn't go back to where it was. 22 years hence, not only did not return to where it was, it got worse and there's no end in sight. INDONESIA: 1997 The third one I used the same yeard stick of the first and said: 12 years. It's been 8 with 4 years to, I am not seeing it being able to make it. US 2005: the only outcome is they will do a UK. Return to its 'natural size.' “The geographical size, population, and natural resources of the British Isles would suggest that it ought to possess 3 or 4% of the world’s wealth and power, all other things being equal; but it is precisely because all other things are never equal that a peculiar set of circumstances permitted the British Isles to expand to possess, say 25% of the world’s wealth and power in its prime; and since those favorable circumstances have disappeared, all that it has being doing is returning down to its more ‘natural’ size. In the same way, it may be argued that the geographical extent, population, and natural resources of the U.S. suggest that it ought to possess perhaps 16 or 19% of the world’s wealth and power, but because of historical and technical circumstances favourable to it, that share rose to 40% or more by 1945; and what we are witnessing at the moment is the early decades of the ebbing away from that extraordinarily high figure to a more ‘natural’ share.” Kennedy Paul, (1988), The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Fontana Press, London. >>

To: TobagoJack who wrote (386)	9/11/2005 2:36:30 AM
From: Taikun	Respond to of 217713

TJ, <only workable if folks are pragmatic> I just wish our so-called leaders would do just that and behave like adults for awhile to try to solve some of mankind's problems instead of behaving exactly the way they scorn their children for behaving in the sandbox when they want a toy the other child has. I am not trying to be an idealist, but we'll get off our addiction to hydrocarbons, for one thing, much faster if we work together instead of taking these adversarial roles. These nations behave like the world is fixed in size. If companies did that we'd never have Starbucks or satellite TV. Perhaps gov't should outsource more international relations to corporations. D