From: oldwifetale@yahoo.com   
      
       
   > This question could be reduced: how much hell and horror will   
   > oldwifetale have to endure, before she gets serious about   
   > the fundamental problems of society and reads a post in full   
   > with brain switched on ? I fear the worst is needed, like his/her   
   > city nuked, and being on the run for her life for years, and   
   > then a long time of misery an of thinking about where it went   
   > wrong, how could it have been averted, what do we do now ?   
   >    
      
   That's the kind of thinking that makes young people feel utterly hopeless,   
   like many already do. Excuse me for not having my "brain switched on". I've   
   recently suffered the loss of two family members (both young, one suicide, one   
   struck by a car while    
   walking), and then my husband of a sudden heart attack in February. Your   
   philosophy of "my way or get nuked" doesn't impress me much at the moment. I'm   
   already in deep mourning and living in survival mode. Death feels like a   
   constant companion.   
      
   But you know what i've been thinking about lately? Something that used to get   
   discussed here very frequently, the idea of looking ahead for Seven   
   Generations. Unlike you, i have a lot of grandchildren to think about. And i   
   want them to have the freedom    
   to think for themselves rather than every little move they make being dictated   
   by a complex system of societal laws - which seems to be where "society" is   
   currently headed. Every single time you say "white man" and talk about cities   
   needing to be nuked,    
   you turn your lawmaking system into a fear-based system.    
      
   And a heartless one at that.    
      
   Sorry, Dutch Man, but that's how i feel about it, and that's how i read it,   
   with brain fully *activated*.      
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)