Re: I feel so deeply hurt.

From: Frank Kotler (fbkotler_at_comcast.net)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 06:08:22 GMT

The Wannabee wrote:

> Sorry. I must exuse me beeing so ignorant. In truth the word Jewish &
> arabs. They dont mean nothing to me. I was talking about war, out of my
> ass. To me jewish or not, means in reality nothing. Arab or not, means
> nothing. Only indivisuals mean something. Only experience means
> anything. I am sorry that some keywords ticked of some old box thinking
> and let me say things, I can not sustain. I know absoultely not why you
> used those words, and what they mean except for the stated fact, and me
> talking about some war or something, that I in reality know nothing
> about was really not me talking at all.

You had a good point, though, about "fear for no reason" or "stirred-up
fear". We *ought* to be fearful of things that are a real risk to us!
"Weapons of Mass Distr?ction" might be such a risk... or not... Lately
we're pretty fearful of "terrorism". The 9/11 attacks were pretty
frightening - 3000 dead, more or less. But that many people die in
traffic accidents every *month*! When we decide how to allocate
resources to try to avert risk, the first step is to evaluate risk
accurately. "Declaring war" on whatever we find "scary" at the moment
isn't efficient.

Maybe Annie's grampa will remember this guy...

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a
continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national
emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if
we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums
demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have
happened, seem never to have been quite real.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1957?)
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Sounds a little familiar...

Best,
Frank

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