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Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> vrooooom <vrooooom@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>>>What about them?
>>>
>>>Nothing that hasn't happened before, for thousands of years.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I turn my head in disgust and prepare for the worst...
>>>>it IS getting worse everyday, you know....
>>>
>>>
>>>Actually, it isn't.  You don't know what worse is.
>>>
>>>lojbab
>>
>>Well I tell ya Bob, If you have to ask What about them"... your mind has 
>>lost its vision.... and excusing behavior is part of the problem, if 
>>they have done it for thousands of years, does that mean it has to 
>>continue?
> 
> 
> Probably.  One cannot legislate a change to human nature.  But of
> course my point is that something that has been going on for thousands
> of years is not likely to lead to the "worst" because if it would,
> then we've already seen the "worst"
> 
> 
>>I thought we were an enlightened people....
> 
> 
> Who?  Us?
> 
> Not that many Buddhists among us who even WANT to be Enlightened.
> 
> We're more interested in trying to MEKE MONEY FAST!!!
> 
> lojbab
Of course my question on emilghtenment was slightly sarcastic, but 
really now, with all the rhetoric about being progressive and 
enilightened, make one think that we as a people have progressed beyond 
racialities and abhorrant behavior?

It obviously is not the cast, and I do agree with you on that notion...

Money is the motivator in many many people's lives, and unfortunately 
our economy has forced us to need more of it to survive..

The sad part about our social exsistance is that we as a people have 
become very materialistic, and derive our selfishness from what we want 
at the moment, to be gratified instantly.. Case in point, a young black 
man was murdured in Auburn, NY for his cell phone last week. Stabbed in 
his side... Cell phones have taken the place of sneakers it seems...

No matter the political party or the special interest group, the best 
intentions will always fail where human greed is involved... pointing 
fingers never helps of course, and I have been guilty of that countless 
times... however...

as Mark Belling used to say, "Everything that has been written in rock 
music has already been done and there will never be anything new to come 
out. Everything out on the radio is all stolen or copied or rehashed."

in my humble opinion, that also has to do with everyday life.....

too bad Mark Belling doesnt go national.... he would beat out Rush...

signed:
Used to live in West Allis,
Vrooooom