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To: Ilaine who wrote (17545)	2/10/1999 7:11:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Thanx Blue; It sure can be very disconcerting to try and separate the good, the bad , and the ugly. To try to weigh the migrating, and or extenuating circumstances and to arrive at some conclusion not preconceived, but it's also a challenge that with out I would be bored stiff. I want to talk about what I came to see , "way after the fact" back when I use to chaperon some call girls. At one point I said I was the doorman of the call house but that was just groping for a label, indeed at times I did have to guard the door, like I said no men ever came in, ( none! ) of course the job went to my head , and so most of the real happenings went over it. I was super street smart and my focus was on that level, at the expense of seeing or figuring out the more sophisticated mechanics of it all, I knew how to drive the car but not how the engine worked or why. I was very young to have such an important and responsible job. Getting into it I want to call it the tale of the "Arm labels the elite inner circles wore" But when I do get into it remember it was in the 50 ts, and some of my memory has dimmed ( I'll bet when I tell it there could be a few that wish it was totally gone ) <G> In sorting through this river of long ago memories the good , the bad, and the ugly I've had to keep reminding myself to guard against saying things in a way that may cause some despondent soul to think that burning down the barn is the only way to get rid of the rats. Taht would do more harm than good. Social circles within social circles, and then inner circles within them, it's a most complex society we have arrived at, perhaps to much for even the best social engineers ( or policy makers ) to grasp. Who can say what an ideal form of government is to be, I know it should fit within some reasonable level which conforms to the ability of the majority it's citizens or members to understand, & pushing very far beyond that can cause a lot of damage, as well as steal away it's ability to have a synergy. I'm no anthropologists but I've been around enough to know that democracy is not suitable for some cultures, it has to be cultivated it can't be imposed. Like making Haiti free for democracy is a joke, they don't want democracy yet, the majority there much prefer to take their chances living as gypsies. Capitalism may find an ideal way to work, if it's not devoid of some basic rules and can enforce them to shake out the closet anarchist who wrap their libido in some opiate of Darwinian superiority. On the other hand communism may be the best thing for some nation if the disparity between the underlings and the elite grow to obscene levels. I guess I'm trying to say, no one shoe fits all, at least not in this world at this time. ------------------------- We are bombarded by one liners, sound bites, demigodry and sensationalism it's almost all we get in the way of news, slanted first one way then the next in a struggle for the minds that are more comfortable when others do their thinking for them. However I think that the vast majority of Americans do not pay near as much mind to the news as the news pundits would have us think. From time to time we get a Citizen Kane to remind us to take the news media with a grain of salt. To tell the simple truth what keeps us rolling along and not imploading is somewhat a mystery to me. Not all together though, I think it's just that the majority of people are decent and honest and hard working and that in spite of the system we are inching ahead and by and large forging from this melting pot an attitude of tolerance that other nations may criticize but would crumble if they came under the weight of it all. Over the years we seem to swing back and forth from better to worse to better again, and it's when the pendulum goes to the down side, it seems to be the best time to tell scary or tragic stories. Misery loves company. I'll have to give my arm band story some more thought, while that's what it now appears those girls were primary used for, just how to paint it were both X and Y can get the picture is worth a little pondering. Jim