--- Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please, please, please let's not get into this > discussion. There have been untold hundreds of > books > written on the topic. You are the first person I've > ever read to stake out the tripod position, though > :-) > The main schools as to which is most stable are > one, > two, and many (4+). Three is sort of by consensus > the > worst, because what will eventually happen is that > the > biggest and strongest will combine with one of the > other two to annihilate the third. > > Gautam
Except, having said that, I think it's not true. I don't remember who, but at least one prominent political scientist has argued for "three" as the most stable configuration, so I take it back :-) Gautam __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
