Fred, Doug,
I think that Carol Cohn's research into the language of nuclear defence is really interesting. I'm skipping over the surface of a lot of things at the moments so apologies if this is not related.
http://books.google.com/books?id=SAY5idFoyS8C&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=carol+cohn+nuclear&source=web&ots=oe-Ej2gDqs&sig=t3jfKHK-mm5VkvMgU6doDPnuTdU
Tina
[log in to unmask]http://www.fatmandancing.co.ukhttp://www.myspace.com/fat_man_dancing> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:19:40 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: revised "Keep On Keeping On," and "Amends"> To: [log in to unmask]> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>> To: <[log in to unmask]>> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 2:08 PM> Subject: Re: revised "Keep On Keeping On," and "Amends"> > > Like them both, as here, Fred.> > This moment for the engineer is telling; it's a major point made by> Jared Diamond in COLLAPSE, about why so many continue to do things that> can only forward the destruction of our world. From their point of> view, under the agendas they follow, what they do is 'rational.'> > Doug> > I love that book. If it could be universally assigned, freshman year high > school ...
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