On 13 Jul 98, Bruce Young wrote:
> >It's based on the premise that we're all connected vix "six degrees of
> >separation" --
>
> Well, we all are connected to an (presumably) ex-priminister of Canada,
> eh! Brent. So I'm sure he met the odd villager in a third world country...
> so next time you see some devastation on CNN, the person suffering may
> well be a friend of a friend of a friend. :)
Mm... yes, I suppose you all suffer some guilt by association vis-a-vis my former
tenure with M. Mulroney, most assuredly the very least popular PM this country has
ever had. Sigh :)
I also met Princess Di many years ago, when she was but two years married -- she
thought I was mentally handicapped at the time, but that's another story.
However, the "six degrees of connectedness" premise thus means that all you WC
types also have kinship with land-mine victims, AID sufferers, Arab merchants and
toe fetishists, to name a few... kinda makes ya think, don't it? :)
To digress a little further: I've long applied the "six degrees" premise to temporal
things, in an effort to emphasize to myself just how connected I really am to
events that happended "long ago"... it doesn't take much effort to construct strong
links between now and events hundreds of years past.
For instance, my great-grandmother died at 97, when I was 15. I'm 41 now, so
that makes her born in 1876. She in turn was the child of older parents -- her
father was 45 when she was born -- so here I already have a direct link to
someone born in 1821.
Her father's father also lived long and sired children late -- he was born in 1787 and
died at 95, meaning that his life overlapped my great-grandmother's by about nine
years. Wow... so here's a woman whom I knew quite well, flesh and blood, who in
turn knew someone alive in the 18th century; we've jumped back over two full
centuries already. Looked at from this perspective, the passage of two hundred
years doesn't seem so ponderous, nor the events during them so foreign or distant.
</digression OFF>
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