>From: Brian Siano <siano at mail.med.upenn.edu>
>
>Gosh, the poor guy. Surrounded by yes-men, unable to discern the truth from
>reality... why, the man must have been _powerless_ to resist.
You're really hostile to this whole concept of finding explanations for things, aren't you?
>
>Call me a deluded bourgeous, but something about freedom of travel, access
>to all kinds of luxury items, a much freer and open society, nicer clothes,
>computer networks, cheap books of an infinite variety makes the US of 2003
>seem a lot nicer than the USSR of the 60s or 70s.
Like I said, it's a matter of taste. BTW the USSR did not ban books.
>This is like saying "Hitler gave us industrialized mass murder, but he gave
>us the Volkswagen. Can't call him evil."
Didn't say that. Go ahead and call him evil if you want to. BTW building a superpower is a hell of a lot more impressive than building a car.
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