Good point Brad but it gets worse. When
the gold that wasn't melted down arrived in Holland it was observed by none
other than Albrecht Durer who said that the articles were the most beautiful
things he had ever seen. That included gold and silver
work as well as armour, clothing, and other fine things. So
how did those Spaniards of less that five hundred defeat a city of 250,000 and
bring back only the gold? The answer?
Smallpox. We may very well get a taste of such things again
and experience a rag/tag group of terrorists taking credit for decimating the
third largest nation on the face of the earth.
Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director
The Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
"Keith Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 6:27
PM
Subject: Re: Migration (of peoples, and of
paradigms)
> [snip]
> > Remember it was the American political Goldwater family who saw so little
> > value in such things that they used to sell Navajo art blankets by the
> > pound.
> [snip]
>
> This is my condemnation of the Conquistadores: They were so
> primitive and ignorant that they melted
> down all the PreColumbian gold and
> silver for bullion. When I was in Japan, I heard that it is
> only in the past couple of centuries that the Europeans have
> become relatively civilized (e.g., using toilet paper and such).
>
> This is certainly not "the Europe" I sing the praises of, i.e., the
> Europe of: _Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity_.
>
> These Europeans "evolve" directly from the hominid creatures of
> the less-than-world of _The Return of Martin Guerre_,
> directly into Nietzsche's Last Man (OK, some of them
> pass thru a "bourgeois" phase on the way).
>
> --
>
> > Wouldn't it make more sense to have Democratic Socialist Republics that are
> > of a size that is both competitive and manageable with good laws that
> > protect the wanderer from crime but still allow for individual limited
> > private property? Perhaps land should be the primary property of the
> > Nation such as was in the old Cherokee Nation where land existed basically
> > in a "lease" situation for those who were able to stimulate the most good
> > for the greatest number within the context of their business.
> [snip]
>
> Why limit this notion of leased-stewardship to land only?
>
> Why not apply it to everything of lasting value in society? Do you
> like fine automobiles? Why not let you have stewardship of one?
> (Of course there should not be automobiles at all, but there are,
> and some of them are works of loving craftsmanship: "the
> hand and mind working together which have made The Ascent of Man").
>
> You never really own a Patek Philippe:
> You merely take care of it for the next generation.
>
> (This advertising slogan would also have another powerful
> meaning if you drop the "a" after "own".)
>
> There is a heppy land, far, far away.
> (--Krazy Kat)
>
> \brad mccormick
>
> --
> 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)
>
> <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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