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To: chaosad who wrote (433)	3/18/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 765

Population control mechanisms such as war, famine, and disease are inevitable facts of life and are part of the global ecosystem. I see you've read Malthus... Anyway, it seems to me you feel overconfident about the security you currently enjoy in the U.S. I mean your country is isolated geogaphically --by two oceans. The Pacific on the West and the Atlantic on the East... Yet, have you read the novel "The 12 monkeys"? I've seen the movie: the action happens in the XXIst century when human survivors have to live underground --literally-- because of some psycho who opened a few bacteriological bottles in the late 1990s! He did so in an international airport with the purpose to swiftly contaminate as many other cities as possible... Take care, Gustave.

To: chaosad who wrote (433)	3/18/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 765

<<It may be a sickness from your perspective, but not from mine. The emergence of the liberal left's propaganda campaign of "political correctness" in the United States is a significant cause for alarm in my opinion. >> I dont believe I wasnt making a speach in favor of "political correctness." What I was saying, is that resurgent nationalism and racism around the world is a form of madness, a form of irrationality of a most dangerous kind. It is hard to fight against an idea that is so easily rationalized by platitudes and appeal to emotion. One would think that people would have seen the principles behind such ideas given recent world history, but it is plain that we have not. I never took Arendt quite literally when she spoke of a sort of "fascist international," an undercurrent of pervasive and insidious philosophy knowingly or unknowingly espoused by those who many times are intellectually incapable of drawing out the logical conclusions to their arguments. Or worse, as you find amongst academia, a stubborn naive ignorance that there even are implications to one's ideas (especially regarding socialist ideas, "we'll get it right next time, that wasnt really socialism"). I rather am convinced now of Arendt's assertion. It's too bad you cant see how your own statements justify such unneccessary messes as the Balkans: <<Population control mechanisms such as war, famine, and disease are inevitable facts of life and are part of the global ecosystem. >> When they are accepted as "natural" and not the product of bad ideas, totalitarianism will be the norm.