>>> spectra at elits.rousse.bg 10/09/00 02:59PM >>>
----- Original Mess -----
From: Charles Brown >
> >>> sokol at jhu.edu 10/09/00 10:54AM >>>
> At 12:09 AM 10/9/00 +0100, Chris wrote:
> >Tonight it looks as if the former communist, now social democratic
> >President, Kwasniewski, has won re-election in Poland by an outright
> majority.
> >The socialists appear to have made further progress in Albania, despite
> >protests of fraud.
> Why is that surprising? Soviet-style communism even with all its faults
> was the best thing that happened in that part of the world since the
> introduction of toilet paper - an incomaparbly better alternative to
> petty-bourgeois nationalism that thrived there between the two world wars,
> or mafia capitalism sponsored by Mad Albraight and her EU henchmen.
>
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> CB: Right on , Wojtek. And you have direct experience.
>
Would Wojtek's oponion and direct experience still count if he happened to
be thinking otherwise?
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CB: Are you asking this because you are thinking otherwise ?
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And, anyway, isn't electrification, for ex, supposed to be more important than toilet-paper?
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CB: You have to get used to Wojtek's sense of humor.
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Still experiencing direct experience, and planning to continue doing so in this lifetime at least,
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CB: Actually, most of our "experience" is indirect. That is a unique human ability. Most of what we know is based on hearsay.