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Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu May 30 11:42:02 PDT 2002


Carrol Cox wrote:


>I can't quite understand why anyone would expect the likes of us to make
>a difference now. If I were to indulge in psychological theorizing
>(which would be false, but I'll do it anyhow) I would say the only
>intelligible reason is that they put their own immediate social comfort
>ahead of the survival of the human species, including their own
>children. They don't give a fuck about how many millions die miserably 5
>years from now as long as they don't get embarassed this very second.

Sometimes you sound like Whittaker Chambers. "It's idle to talk about saving the West. It's already a wreck from within...."

Doug



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