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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (43080)	12/14/2005 10:48:13 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"Exactly what DO you propose to get around the bribery of France and Russia?" These are hardly deal breakers in a long term vision. On the one hand, the world operates on a mundane level of pecking for food, crossing the street, and trying to steal the profit from non profit associations. On the other hand, the world plays out collective visions on a grand level of meaning and purpose. Time worked out the step upon the moon--once the vision was in place. Time worked out the French Revolution, once the vision was in place: the American Revolution, too. We eradicated smallpox: Vision, energy, DIRECTION--and time. We drove Hitler into a bunker with a pistol, a woman, and a dog (and for all you rednecks: YES. With a pistol, a woman, and a dog you can do almost anything!). How did we get by the tanks, the planes, the fanatical vision to rule the world? We just got busy with our own vision. If the collective vision is for a world united against terrorists and against WMD's--then we will have it. France is not what it was and not what it will be. Nor is anything else. We did not escape the earth's pull with canons (as Verne proposed). But we did escape it. As to who you wish to consider as a power deserving to have input in a world which is now a global village where we are all affected by acts and initiatives---well that only matters if you are concerned about enemies--or friends (he says, tongue in cheek). And that reminds me of a certain Tricky Dick who changed the course of history by visiting a little Nation of short people and shaking their tiny cunning hands--Hands so tiny and cunning they can make a calculator fit on your key chain--right next to your travel kit and your television set. <g>