Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
[snip]
> Clinton did amazing things and could have done more. Bush seems capable of
> negotiating as was Clinton but his economic and (dare I say) "moral" impulse
> lends less to the sexual and more to the venal. Frankly I would prefer a
> sexey President male or female with less venality and caring more about us
> while they were in the White House.
[snip]
Isn't a large part of the trouble in the mainstream of
America *always* due to the prurient prudery of the holier-than-thou?
A lot of the people in positions of power over other
people seem to "get off" on depriving the people they
have power over of straightforward sexual gratification.
Such tawrdy fantasy life also "cannot imagine" why or
that people "without souls" would do things to "us"
like repurposing our jumbo jets ("on the fly, even!" --
I could not resist that rhetoricval flourish...)
as precision guided cruise missiles.
The banality all around us.
I can truly vouch for the
fact that, in my case, what "they" taught me in their
childrearing -- i.e., bringing-but-not-up -- of me,
was that the world did not deserve to exist nor anything
in it, especially them. I think they should be proud of
their accomplishment.
I can still remember reading the sentence in Thomas Kuhn's
_The STructure of Scientific Revolutions_, where Kuhn
says that new scientific theories do not become ascendent
by converting believers in the older theories. Kuhn
explains that the new theories gain ascendence because
all the adherents of the older theory *eventually die
without having been able to recruit members of the
next generation to carry on their work*.
And this was an epiphany for me: I saw that, one
day, all my tor-mentors and their [less-than-]world
would be DEAD and cease to cause any more trouble.
This was in 1979. I was about 33 years old. Better
late than never.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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