X-Message-Number: 20707
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 19:55:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Dani Kollin <>
Subject: Power to the people

"No powerful group, religious, government,
billionaries... will do 
something 
for you". 

You mean, with regards to religion, things like ending
child sacrifice, instituting codes of law and ethics
that are the basis of the Declaration of Independance?
Things like that?
Or perhaps, when it comes to government, do you mean
things like fighting Nazism, Communism, Fascism or
today's bane - Islamic terrorism? Or perhaps you meant
pouring billions of dollars into community projects
and welfare?
Or perhaps you were talking about billionaires like
Ted Turner (1 billion dollars given to the UN) and
Bill Gates (millions upon millions given to various
charities).

What I'm getting at Yvan is that it's not a black and
white issue. There are rich who give and rich who
don't. There are governments that are run by despots
and govts that are run by democrats. There are
religions that condone hate and fanatacism and
religions that are about brotherly love.  That you
choose to see the world through a single set of lenses
is both sad to me as well as scary. I don't want to
wake up in a world of individualized intellectual
anarchy. I'd much rather have a system in place that,
while not purely theocratic, has within it structure
theocratic sentiment (much like the U.S. does today).

Dani

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