Well, there you have it. I'm working for a world where married lesbians with great healthcare can unwind with legal pot after a hard day of torturing Al Quaeda prisoners <bg>
>Yeah. And somebody called Deming once said "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
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>Personally I enjoy a bit of chaos (can you tell?) but that's only possible in the ordered environment offered by society. If everybody decided to pursue change and chaos there would be no society. Seems to me that if you're seeking a workable middle ground you need both conservative and liberal thinking, with problems occurring when one or the other gains undue influence. I'd also suggest that many people follow apparently "conservative" thinking on some points but "liberal" thinking on others. There is no cadre of good versus bad on every imaginable point- not unless people are overly aligned to some political party and slavishly follow its dictates whether they seem to be working or not.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
