Brad McCormick: > > Ed Weick wrote: > > > > The Soviet Union was a brutal system under which critics were silenced > > and millions were sent into exile for petty dissent. Yet for the > > majority it meant work, school for children and, if not adequate > > health services, then at least the existence of such services. The > > system collapsed of its own weight and inefficiencies. > [snip] > > And so too did the Tower of Babel! > > Excuse my ignorant German: > > Die Welktgeschichte ist sie Weltgerichte
Sorry, Brad, you've lost me here. I translate this as "the world's story or history is the world's justice or law (or perhaps punishment or fate?)" (assuming that by the "sie" you mean "die"). It's something I don't know. > (except when people the U.S. government > does not like seem to be winning, which > can only be through cheating on their > part, which we must intervene to try > to prevent from derailing the otherwise > inevitable universally felicitous > laying on of the Invisible Hand....) Someone, Keith I believe, recently raised the concept of two major conflicting views of where everything is trending, that of Fukuyama and that of Huntington. Fukuyama suggests a homogenization of the world along American lines. Huntington focuses on the enduring fault lines that divide major cultures. Both seem currently at work in the world. Both are frightening. > Cheers! I really don't think so. Ed
