Beettle, the last subject line was exceeding regulations

[Michael Bailey]

K3 V iN Cummiskey wrote:
> Beettle, I have 9 tons of shit in my inbox to get through and you send me more research?  No, really appreciate. I read through once without linking but will tomarrow after school. Did I hit a sore nerve?  You got something against Ruseavelt?


Roosevelt and most of the presidents I can think of are poster children for
Lord Acton's adage.  He was cool in some ways but I stop short of idolizing him.

My grandma used to have a sampler in the dining room that read
"there is so much good in the worst of us
and so much bad in the rest of us
that it hardly behooves any of us
to criticize the rest of us"

(the scansion is a little off so it's probably an inexact quote)

anyway, even Bush has some seeds of good in him

the memes under which he labors seem to countenance actions
that are deplorable, though, I will not rest from denouncing them
and seeking superiour (kinder, gentler) ones to propound and exemplify

It sounds like that tolfa is right-anarchist.  There's a whole
left-anarchist spectrum
too.  I diagrammatize it thus

                   Cool                 Suck

Righties    Voluntarism          Competition glorified, idolatry of rich
               Intellectualism            Lack of compassion
                                           Ignore facts in proclaiming
capitalism savior

Lefties        Co-operation      Propensity to violence,
               Better parties        willngness to spend other people's money
                                         don't seem to understand
basic accounting

Neither one understands that gov't (imho) is what we make of it.
"we get the government we deserve"

Government is just people doing stuff, like all other enterprises.
Government is capable of doing cool stuff, like when Ireland poured a bunch
of money into education, and mirabile dictu, experienced prosperity,
or sucky stuff like invading
Iraq and blocking farmers from testing cattle.

I do like how tolfa thinks we can save the world by reading books, though...