<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#3dffff"> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol@jhu.edu> I think the world started to change (at least from the human perspective) when one of our prehistoric ancestors picked up a stick (Strauss's _Also Sprach Zarathustra_ playing in the background) and hit his compatriot over the head with it to get ahead of him in the pecking order.  -clip- Wojtek</BLOCKQUOTE> ^^^^^^^^^ CB: Did you get this idea from that scene in _2001 Space Odessey_  ? ( Which is exactly an ape pickng up a stick and rendering it as a weapon with a seeming implication of some big historical change ) . This would make us _homo bellicosus_ ? War is not politics by other violent means. War is the essential human activity. Here we go loopty loo. Here we go loopty lie. </HTML>