OT: Stupid discussions about Dick's silly ideas

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sun Jul 8 15:14:09 2001

It's not the politicians that are corrupt. It's the citizens who don't hold up
their end of the social contract.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vance Dereksen" <vance_at_ikickass.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Stupid discussions about Dick's silly ideas


>
> People in this country don't know what corruption can be. The politicians
> in this country are (for the most part) very virtuous. Take Russia or
> India. There's corruption. This is nothing. The "corruption" here is
> basically the small amount that gets past the radar of the all-consuming
> all-terrifying tyrannical American mob. Other countries don't have this
> mechanism. It's ok to be idealistic, but we must also be realistic in
> that the American public does a *pretty* good job of keeping our
> politicians in line.
>
> Peace... Sridhar
>
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> >
> > > Some day there will be new frontiers on other planets but until then,
> > > I don't see such an easy escape from the existing governments. Any
> > > future revolutions we have in the US will have all the same problems
> > > of revolutions in older established countries, say, France or Russia;
> > > that of trying to cast off the old ways and being unable to really
> > > completely start over, because the past is always there to haunt you.
> >
> > The problem is even with the intended ideals that the founders put in
> > place, our political system still ended up becoming corrupt, with
> > seemingly no way of correcting it short of Armageddon (although it did
> > take 200 years for it to happen).
> >
> > Does this mean every couple of centuries we'll have to re-invent the
> > United States on some other distant expanse of immaculate territory?
> >
> > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
>
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> >
>
>
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