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mnottertail -> RE: Can Barak "get ghetto?" (2/17/2008 2:18:58 PM)
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This was said on the occasion of Louis XVI's beheading:
We have learnt, a little late no doubt, that for Stats as for individuals' real wealth consists not in acquiring or invading the domains of others, but in developing one's own. We have learnt that all extensions of territory, all usurpations, by force or by fraud, which have long been connected by prejudice with the idea of 'rank', of 'hegemony', of 'political stability', of 'superiority' in the order of the Powers, are only the cruel jests of political lunacy, false estimates of power, and that their real effect is to increase the difficulty of administration and to diminish the happiness and security of the governed for the vanity of those who govern... France ought, therefore, to remain within her own boundaries, she owes it to her glory, to her sense of justice and of reason, to her own interest and to that of the other nations who will become free.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
I think that we have heard this sort of advice over and over, and never actually attempted it.
Enough with this we should talk about how to deal with the rest of the world, that is all we have done.
Just like FEMA, after 2 years of study found that formaldehyde in the trailers could kill people, like that is the first study ever done, or the others were flawed or something new might turn up...Nah, they study and debate (a euphemism for not doing a fucking thing and hope it goes away).
Same here, we need action, we need to focus inward, but not turn exclusively inward. And work on our interior.
Ron
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