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> From: "What's New" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: What's New for Aug 27, 1999
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> WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 27 Aug 99 Washington, DC
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> 1. DEVOLUTION:
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Is the US slipping back into the Middle Ages? I doubt it.
The Middle Ages were a time of -- often albeit slow and
non-uniform -- growth.
Is the US slipping into a new Dark Age? Now *that's*
a good question, or at least so it seems to me. A
"Dark Age" is a time of devolution, where things fall apart
and people learn how to *survive* rather than *live* or,
a fortiori, *flourish*.
Two possibilities: (1) H.G. Wells' fine sci-fi film
"The Shape of Things to Come", in which a small
saving-remnant of aviators scour the earth
and bring all the little Richard Daley's (father, not son)
who figured out how to survive, back to reason.
(2) Luc Besson's exquisite film "Le Derniere Combat",
in which things do not work out so well for the
last scientist.
More likely: Learn a lesson from Vittorio de Sica's
admonitory film "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis".
It's a foolish rat that stays on a sinking ship.
\brad mccormick
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