Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Try as I might, I just can't dislike this guy....I should be able to.....I'm a weak person....but about the time I work up a good distaste for him, he goes and does something to screw it up.... Cheers, Marc... Walt On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Marc James Small wrote: > At 04:38 PM 4/5/99 -0700, Richard Edwards wrote: > >One common sign of depression is a tendency to lead most conversations > >into politics, or other irrelevant issues that weigh heavily on one's soul. > > Irrelevant? Thucydides has Pericles saying, "[W]e do not say that the > person who takes no interest in politics minds his own business; we say he > has no business here at all", while Heinlein describes politics as the only > game in town for adults. They both understated it by quite a bit. > > Irrelevant? Sheesh. Cameras are, ultimately, irrelevant, as are cars and > military history and most of those other things we spend a lot of time > worrying about on the Net. But politics, while it really doesn't belong on > the LUG, is hardly "irrelevant". > > The true enemy to civilization are those who sleep without knowing how they > are losing the battle to preserve their liberties, and those who judge > politics to be "irrelevant". > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >