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
On 27-Dec-07, at 9:53 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
> I realized
> there is no rationality
> or rather that everyone’s rational, each
> in his own short-term way.
Douglas Barbour
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Oh, goddamnit, we forgot the silent prayer.
Dwight D, Eisenhower
[at a cabinet meeting]
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