IMF and Progressives
Patrick Bond
pbond at wn.apc.org
Sat Nov 14 23:58:21 PST 1998
> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 20:28:46 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
...
> I remember walking around Geneva and marveling at the fact
> that people *obeyed the traffic rules*, stopping even at unmarked streets.
> Invading armies would be simply politely chastened to death.
No, just get the invadors into the "queue" at a railway ticket
office, and then they'd be trampled.
Likewise my German relatives always got angry in a guilty sort of
way when I pointed out the respect for authority implicit in their
pedestrian behaviour, and disrespect for humanity implicit in
queuing patterns...
P.
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