On 5/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">KAZ</b> <<a href="mailto:kazvorpal@yahoo.com">kazvorpal@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This
is true...but it's also nothing new. People were, correctly, pointing
out exactly those factors thirty years ago, sixty years ago, ninety
years ago, 150 years ago, and 185 years ago...just to mention a few I
know of specifically. Things went to hell in a handbasket with the
Civil War, with Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Jackson, et cetera.<br><br>But
the downtime between the Enlightenment and the Information Revolution
was both short and mild, in the US. Who knows, it might even be better
this time.</blockquote><div><br>
Unlike me, you are an optimist ^.^ This is not a bad thing in itself;
the world needs optimists as well as pessimists. I will suggest
proceeding as though I'm right - while at the same time hoping you're
right.<br>
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