Only a few (including the group behind Bush) know what it's all about. That's why they have lied about their motives in invading Iraq and were also able to persuade Blair to perjure himself in front of his own nation. All done with the best of motives (so the historians will tell us). They don't trust the public enough to tell them what it's really all about.
We really ought to be forgetting about all the ideological scapegoats. The truth is that we probably have no more than about two decades in which to invent a large and powerful new energy technology and develop it in time to take over from oil and gas. If this doesn't happen, the mentally weakest and laziest will go to the wall -- as they have always done throughout the whole period of our species.
Just at the moment our species in the developed world is committing suicide anyway by refusing to procreate sufficient replacement children. The reason why is that we have become conned by both the left and the right. The left has conned us that the welfare state will look after us in our old age, and the right has conned us that the financial services industry can be trusted to keep us prosperous until the day we die. They are both disastrously wrong.
We are now back to the same game that has been going on for the last 100,000 years or so -- survival.
Keith Hudson
.At 19:09 08/06/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Ed Weick wrote:
Brad, get used to it. Obscenity is the name of the game, though no one who
uses it or benefits from it would call it that.
If you want to get power out of a river, you dam it up.
This is, I propose (basing myself on
my reading of Freud...), the "message" of societies' repressive
manipulation of sexual energy.
> However, it does make one
wonder where the world is going and how fast it will get there. Rich and
powerful countries behaving like rogue states (though calling others that)
terrorize and destroy poor ones on trumped up grounds of harbouring terror
and possessing weapons of mass destruction.
Keith Hudson, 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath, England
