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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (50448)	5/25/2009 2:51:31 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218660

Go get some culture. Read Oswald Spengler. His description of the Faustian civilization is where the populace constantly strives for the unattainable—making the western man a proud but tragic figure, for while he strives and creates he secretly knows the actual goal will never be reached. The book includes the idea of Muslims, Jews and Christians, as well as their Persian and Semitic forebears, being Magian, Mediterranean civilizations of the antiquity such as Ancient Greece and Rome being Apollonian, and the modern Westerners being Faustian, and according to its theories we are now living in the winter time of the Faustian civilization.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (50448)	5/25/2009 3:47:38 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218660

Go get some culture. Read Arnold J. Toynbee.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (50448)	5/25/2009 6:44:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218660

Meanwhile, the Kim dynasty didn't take long to replace the all for one and one for all communist ideology of the proletariat: en.wikipedia.org China will also move gradually, or quickly, to similar dynastic totalitarianism. It's inevitable and predictable. Japan changed, permanently perhaps, due to being nuked and unconditionally surrendering to the USA's new constitution forced on them and adopted because it was actually quite good. Maybe China should unconditionally surrender to the USA and ask for a new constitution. There doesn't have to be a war to unconditionally surrender. Or maybe China could declare war, then, when the USA takes up the challenge, quickly unconditionally surrender. Meanwhile, China is not all that happy about nukes just over the border. It must be time for another Great Wall of China, but this one would need to be much higher to stop the Kims. China might find that North Korea [their ally] is much more of a threat to them than is South Korea [their purported enemy]. South Korea is full of CDMA so it's no threat at all. China is filling with CDMA too, so they'll be coming right. North Korea - that's another story. Russia is covered in CDMA from Globalstar. Japan is full of it too. Heck, North Korea is surrounded by CDMA. They'll see the light one of these days, I hope. China and South Korea have Globalstar gateways, not just terrestrial CDMA, so they win. Mqurice

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (50448)	5/26/2009 7:41:18 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218660

If everyone adopts the innovations that caused the industrial revolution and subsequent growth then in the end they'd all catch up to the leaders (or at least be a lot closer depending on your economic growth theory) and relative importance globally would be closer to relative population. I think this is what Elmat means by "Natural Size". Of course those populations are changeable. Pre the industrial revolution population depended on agricultural productivity - so Italy had a large population and Britain a smaller one. So no there isn't a unique "natural size" but I think Elmat is expressing the economic catch up idea...