Mike

I can see how you might take my posts as saying you are ignorant and unconcerned about events elsewhere in the world. My intention was to point out that it is a problem of the first world that people are unhappy because they have time and freedom to worry about smaller and smaller things in their own lives. We need to see that in ourselves or we start to turn into discontented, selfish small people who have a breakdown because the local supermarket ran out of the toaster bagels we like. I'm not having a go at you, there was a lady in the local supermarket last week having a go at the manager because he dared, DARED to run out of raisin and cinnamon bagels and now she'd need to go to her therapist she was so distraught. We need to watch for that petty selfishness arising in ourselves because it is UGLY.

Anyway: look at the USA in the MacCarthy years and tell me americans were more free then. Politics waxes and wanes.

Regards

JR