Tom Walker wrote: >Reconciling the contradictory beliefs is _not_ easy, as attested by the >totality of journalism, education, criminal justice, medicine, religion, >marketing and non-auratic art dedicated to promoting this internalization. A >rough estimate would be that _most_ of the U.S. economy is a symbolic >economy of illusion. <snip> >It is not easy to reconcile the contradictions, but it is so much harder to >stop doing it that it makes it look easy by comparison. I agree entirely; I should have written "too easily reconciled." mark ________________________________________________________ NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html