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To: LindyBill who wrote (160183)	3/9/2006 4:15:40 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793897

<Sorry, Mq. It will never work now. It's just too riddled with defects that cannot be fixed. > Lindy I know most people are defeatist, fatalistic, negative, give up, and are generally nihilistic, but to give up without trying seems more than a little limp. Especially when the consequence of giving up is not a happy picture. Eternal war might be a lot of fun, but with only 4 million people, it wouldn't be all that great for NZ and with only 4% of the world's population, I can tell you it won't be that great for the USA either. Already there's a lot of whining about the piffling little conflict in Iraq. Leadership of the USA came from people who led, not from people who gave up, found only the problems, could see mainly the negatives, worried about trying and you know the rest. Leaders lead. Losers don't. Giving up isn't an option. Nature is relentless, merciless and indifferent to anything that gives up. Nature runs a huge recycling process and there's room for everything. I suppose giving up is an option, but giving up is a null option. There is only to be, or not to be. That is the question. There are other possibilities, such as running eternal war with 4% of the world's population in an Arabian Nights writ large process of shifting alliances, interests and conflicts. Having democratic sensibilities, I would not bet with 4% against 96%. Even if the 4% have some head start advantages gifted by those who have gone before. I'm not under any illusions that the end of history is upon us and I will not be in the slightest surprised if we have a re-run, with a change of characters and costumes, of the 20th century internecine warfare. Personally, I think it worth fixing what's broke. Or re-engineering what's underdesigned. Mqurice