From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sat 09 Nov 2002 - 16:36:21 GMT
On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 11:00 , Grant Callaghan wrote:
> What you are calling individualism is not what I was talking about at
> all. In the old days, when a man was cast out from his tribe to wander
> in the desert (or the forest or the sea) it was considered a death
> sentence. Without the help of other people, survival was extremely
> difficult. It wasn't a matter of identity. It was a matter of not
> having the mental and physical tools with which to survive in the
> wilderness.
And it was in this sense that I called bingo, as much as I enjoy the
romanticism of hermits.
It was in _your_ sense, Kenneth, that I forwarded the quote along about
what cannot be taken away from us.
- Wade
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