Re: Heads-up: Possible Televisual Recovery

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:22:04 GMT,
abuse@xxxxxxxxx <abuse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-11-03, Alan J Rosenthal <flaps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Robert Uhl <eadmund42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
But I'm an idealist.

I think it's sad that your concept of idealism is "everyone for themselves"
rather than cooperation. My concept of idealism is cooperation.
Not, ideally, obtained by force (government and police etc) but rather by
people's natural inclinations towards cooperation; but certainly _obtained_,
somehow, ...

Back in 190-something Lenin predicted that creating people with said
natural inclination will be the hardest part of building a communist
state. The answer, implemented by him and all successors everywhere
(Papa Joe, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.) is to kill off everyone who remembered
things can be different and start building when the next generation
reaches usable age.

Dima


And they all failed...

--
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
-- Oscar Wilde
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