From: Jeremy Bradley (jeremyb@nor.com.au)
Date: Tue 10 Dec 2002 - 23:54:29 GMT
At 05:42 PM 10/12/02 -0600, you wrote:
>> Joe:
>> >Let me attempt to explain this in another way. There is always a gap
>> > between the intolerable and the unattainable ideal of the perfect;
>> >the perfect keeps changing, as novel opportunities result from
>> >technological advance, so the intolerable advances, too. If the
>> >actual situation falls to the intolerable, revolution results, but
>> >before this can happen, people vote to change things; thus, a
>> >democracy maintains itself between the intolerable and the perfect,
>> >in a perpetually evolving yet always tolerable spectrum.
>>
>> Bingo, but where does that lead to, a decline in USAnia-bashing or an
>> improvement in its foreign policy? Jeremy
>>
>It's been improving for quite a while; the US's most recent military
>interventions (in Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, Somalia, Afghanistan, and -
>possibly - Iraq) have been on the side of the angels.
>>
Only if you are an 'angel' Joe. That is the memetic problem - memes only
acceptance of the acceptable.
Jeremy
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