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To: Sam who wrote (1293)	1/20/1998 6:34:00 PM
From: Stitch	Respond to of 9980

Sam, Thanks for your thought provoking post. I once had an idyllic notion that the new order of diplomacy was wrought on the conference room tables of free enterprises. I even romantically imagined I was a part of this process as I traveled throughout Asia and Europe hawking my high tech wares. Everytime I saw a hand written receipt, or watched a clerk search dusty shelves to see if an item was "in stock" I thought "herein lies the opportunity". To me "world economy" meant a lessening of the gulfs between nations and people. I imagined that the world economy would revolve around practical solutions to everyday problems. Now I am not so sure. I suspect I had become a technocrat, overlooking the basic human emotions of mistrust and alienation. That Asia appears to have fallen in a heap of hubris and that, ultimately, the Western world will be blamed is not the salient point. That in the future some historians will remark that greed undid the golden opportunity (once again) may be. I fear this could come to rest on us all. Best, Stitch