marmar
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Fri Dec-29-06 11:02 PM
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"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas."
Sadly, no one listened to him.
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Fri Dec-29-06 11:07 PM
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that has such people in it".
Aldous Huxley was a smart man.
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Left Is Write
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Fri Dec-29-06 11:09 PM
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2. Even though I use anti-depressants myself, I still think of Brave New World |
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and its "soma" whenever I see the multitude of ads for the multitude of anti-depressants available to today's world.
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pitohui
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Fri Dec-29-06 11:14 PM
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3. the stupid are incapable of hearing |
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the malice benefit from not hearing
so what is there to "listen" to? those of us who are not stupid or malicious are already not stupid or malicious
those who are stupid and/or malicious are not going to be talked out of it by aldous huxley
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pitohui
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Fri Dec-29-06 11:14 PM
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4. double post delete please |
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Edited on Fri Dec-29-06 11:14 PM by pitohui
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Igel
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Fri Dec-29-06 11:23 PM
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5. "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan"? |
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Assuming Saddam was a swan.
Unfortunately, the other third of our miseries tend to spring from foolish realism. There's just no winning. (E. Timor, shaking Saddam's hand in '83 ... realism.)
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