[lbo-talk] Fwd: Rick Warren should be in prison

[Miles Jackson]

Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> Robert Wrubel wrote:
> 
>>
>>I notice that we are just as bloody in war as any of
>>Homer's heroes (more so, in fact, because more
>>de-personalized.)  Are our "humanitarian"
>>justifications for war more civilized than Homer's
>>"honor"?
> 
> 
> Accepting (provisionally) your use of "civilized" as a positive, the
> high point of civilization to date is Book 24 of the Iliad. Dante &
> Shakespeare don't come even close to equalling it.
> 
> Carrol

I must respectfully disagree.  The absolute zenith of civilization is 
undoubtedly "I wanna be sedated" by the reknown poet Jeffry Ross Hyman.

Miles