Thank you for trying to stop the runaway politics. I do spend time looking at a fair amount of history. I have some memories of comments from the 1500s, the 1700s, the 1800s, and the early 1900s all saying (using various terms) that "changes" (aka "progress") should be stopped because "things are better without changes." For example, look how many people lost their jobs when "automation" replaced horses ---- or how many "traditional" healers lost their hobbies when antibiotics were invented. One can carry this line of thinking to almost any point in history. "Stop progress" "Stop the smarter people" "Stop the more capable people" "Inventors/investors/organizers/hard-workers should not be allowed to profit from their special work" "etc, etc, etc"
Silly? Look carefully at Russia from about 1920 to 1980 and see what enforced socialism brings. END ---- no more on this topic! Bill Ogden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
