<div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ok, all what I'm saying is that "when in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Rome</st1:City></st1:place> do like the Romans"<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I'm not saying this is the best way to deal with any problem at all, and from a personal point of view my solution in the end was to leave...because I wanted to do science...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And this is why I put up with the problems I have here in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>...because in the end the benefits of this country are much more than the problems...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:
Arial">but in Italy you learn how to deal with stupidity of the bureaucracy just doing certain things...like here in the USA I had to learn than when somebody tells " How are you ?" the answer is not " today I'm sad, happy or whatever is happening to you..." but another meaningless " How are you?" that in Italy would be considered absurd (if somebody asks "Come stai" they want to know how you really are....<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But I agree things need to change in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place> and everywhere, politically, economically, philosophically, we want to change everything everywhere, transhumanism as I understand it is a global revolution...<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Amara Graps <amara@amara.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px
solid">giovanni santost santostasigio at yahoo.com :<BR>>but Giulio is right that is the Italian way to deal with the <BR>>stupidity of >bureaucracy: just ignore it....<BR><BR>Well, there's an attitude that will fix the problems! Do nothing and<BR>it will solve itself, right? Or maybe all simply like to watch the fuga<BR>di cervelli during the last 60 years. Entertainment of Dante's Comedies<BR>and Tragedies.<BR><BR>To the Italian transhumanists: Your biggest dreams will not go very far<BR>until you fix your country's infrastructure and give some support to the<BR>next generation of scientists. This generation, in my opinion, is lost.<BR><BR>Amara<BR><BR>-- <BR><BR>Amara Graps, PhD www.amara.com<BR>Research Scientist, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing
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