Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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!