RE: [Leica] Compulsive political message posting

[Richard Edwards <REdwards@Vetronix.com>]

I apologize for implying that politics are irrevelant. I meant
that they are not the central topic of the LUG, yet some
folks here seem to go that way often.

There are many thinkers and politicians who could spend 
minutes, even hours---hear that, Walt?---of their leisure
time on other pursuits before returning to their more
important political activities. Churchill spent time 
painting apolitical paintings and took holidays with
political adversaries during which it was agreed that
the activities "would not be allowed to interfere with
the bitterness and asperity of party politics."

The tone of my message was deliberately pompous
and ironic. I hope for your sake that you also had
that intent in your reply.

The true enemy to civilization are those who begin
sentences with "The true enemy to civilization...".

- -Al




> 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
> 
> 
>