Ray, Come off it! You really do exaggerate!
If by "great soaring works of human imagination" you mean the great temples and cathedrals of the past, they were erected as the visible symbols of the power of the hierarchies of their times mainly in order to impress (and oppress) the hoi polloi. Yes, technically, they were great achievements and we've even grown to love their interesting shapes, but don't spiritualise them as though they were built with any different motives from, say, the Enron building (though, God knows, that building is so boring I cannot imagine that anybody would ever love that!) Keith At 21:21 02/10/02 -0400, you wrote: >Ray said, > >So Arthur, why do we do all of these things that you mention? I realize >that it is more difficult to explain the grandeur of a magnificent economic >edifice than the Hoover Dam but you should try. Today's economists are >"hooked" on the lower rungs of the Maslow Hierarchy. Instead of creating >great soaring works of human imagination and building economies around such, >we have built our lives around widgets that mean little and eventually lead >us all down the road to pillaging our neighbors or creating >self-justification for legal conundrums that will make even murder just. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Keith Hudson,6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel:01225 312622/444881; Fax:01225 447727; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________
