Just as economic insecurity inflames religious fundamentalism,
spiraling fuel costs and stagflation are also behind the spike in
delusional posting.

Greater American society today is, in fact, much like the plains
Indians' a century and a half ago. A way of life is coming to an end
so rapidly many dream of the old days and indulge in a fantasy world
like small children.

So not only do U. S. leaders -- assuming any exist -- have to deal
with an aging obese population with less natural resources and, worst
of all, all the hubris and bad laws of a decaying super power, we can
add one more problem:

Large numbers of people who are so delusional rewriting the public
record seems easier than facing reality.

And _no_ outlawing fantasy the way ghost dancing was outlawed will
_not_ help.

Both are/were protected expression under U. S. Const. Amend. I.

Bret Cahill

On Aug 26, 11:02 am, BretCah...@peoplepc.com wrote:

Oh, I get it. So now you are grasping for an excuse
for your posts. I see how it is.

Is this your prediction that _real_ free speech will be
replaced by "free speech for the working class" (i.e.
censorship, as practiced in Singapore and China, as
you have admitted)?

So this excuses your nostalgia for the late
Seventies lowering of the high-tax Jimmy
Carter hyperinflation, hyperunemployment,
hyperinterest-rate boom?

Snipping won't change the reality that liquid fuel prices will resume
spiraling in 6 months.

Here, let's try again:

Just as economic insecurity inflames religious fundamentalism,
spiraling fuel costs and stagflation are also behind the spike in
delusional posting.

Greater American society today is, in fact, much like the plains
Indians' a century and a half ago. A way of life is coming to an end
so rapidly many dream of the old days and indulge in a fantasy world
like small children.

So not only do U. S. leaders -- assuming any exist -- have to deal
with an aging obese population with less natural resources and, worst
of all, all the hubris and bad laws of a decaying super power, we can
add one more problem:

Large numbers of people who are so delusional rewriting the public
record seems easier than facing reality.

And _no_ outlawing fantasy the way ghost dancing was outlawed will
_not_ help.

BretCahill@peoplepc.com wrote:

We'll see...

You're always very trying, child.

Like hell it does.

We aint seen any stagflation, child.

Yours, possibly.

Nope, nothing like it. No one is trying to exterminate them for starters.

There's always fools that do that, child.

Yours is the biggest fantasy around, child.

On Aug 26, 10:20 pm, BretCah...@peoplepc.com wrote:

Care to put your money where Uranus is?

Yes, let's:

Oh, I get it. So now you are grasping for an excuse
for your posts. I see how it is.

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:02:38 -0700, BretCahill wrote:

"The American Way Of Life" has come to an end so many times. What is
understandably delusional is to think there has been, even over the last
100 years, some consistent homogeneous 'way of living'.

The "aging obese population" you speak of know this have seen it and have
lived through it a couple, even three times, maybe.

The 'one more problem' might very well be that 'FEAR' is now a commercial
commodity and no longer just a political tool.

On Aug 27, 6:04 am, ZerkonX X.net> wrote:

Well, I think that the private sector can make
FEAR far more productive than the bureacracy
ever did. It's always good to have a range of
competing FEARs to choose from anyway.

Despotism is based on fear. Despotic societies, however, will never
be as productive as democratic societies.

That's why the Old South can to an end.

Slavery just isn't as productive as liberty.

Bret Cahill