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To: JHP who wrote (6570)	9/22/1998 4:51:00 PM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

John, I very much agree with that statement. It appears to be a natural part of human existence that people always denigrate the current era and think fondly of the lost past. The truth is that when you get past historical myths and actually study the actual day to day reality of the past you start to find out how much progress we have made. A good example is urban crime. People often deplore how dangerous our cities have become. But go back and look even as recently as the 19th century. Major urban centers both in Europe and the US were much more dangerous than they are now. Caleb Carr is a historian who has written to novels set in the 1890s New York City. They give an eye opening account of the day danger and violence of every day life. Henry

To: JHP who wrote (6570)	9/22/1998 5:34:00 PM
From: Bosco	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9980

G'day all - JHP sez, "... Try reading "Bury my Heart At wounded KNEE"... " Yes, to prefix this quote, "I will not be here, I will rise and go..." It is interesting surrounding the so-called BIG THING, while the media have kept hyping every minute detail, the poll keeps telling the media to go away. Personally, I find it all too [absurdly] amusing, how one man vendetta of another man's humanistic shortcoming can preoccupy the center stage for so long while the foreigners, including a lot of asians - I would venture to guess - are befuddled by the sound and the fury of this issue while the world's economies are teetering, fundamentalists of the worst kind run amuck, and certainly many 3rd world countries are harboring destructive ambition of the nuclear and biochemical kinds. As a cyberfriend in another part of the net I frequent marveled: this Prez has not traded arms with an avowed enemy and he has not harboured dictators who were instrumental of flooding the street with crack etc. While I love this good old US of A, it seems that people don't meditate enough on Nick Adams [alter ego of Ernie Hemingway] and want to play moralist. best, Bosco

To: JHP who wrote (6570)	9/23/1998 1:07:00 AM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9980

JHP, OT Actually I have read Dee Brown's book and many others of a similar vein. But I would still argue the point that there has been a moral decline. It is just that you and I may have differing views as to what constitutes morals. Do you think that U.S. policy towards Native Americans is dramatically improved? If you do, and if you really want to use the treatment of native Americans as evidence of the improved morals of the United States...then I wonder if I could interest you in a bridge? best, Stitch