>And a principle enabler of that opportunity was a people unshackled by >restraining government and class structures, free to make the most >those opportunities through hard work.
This is the concept of everyman as "noble savage." Stanley Kubrick said it very well..."Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved -- that about sums it up... any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure." ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
