-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/11/08 20:47, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: [snip] > > I do think that this whole "whatever is profitable is moral" mentality
"*Whatever*" is too strong a word, just as you called me out on the use of the word "all". > to be strongly USian, but certainly not unique to them. It seems > common amongst other conquering, colonialist, warring nations. China and Russia seem is also to have become aggressively acquisitive, but China hasn't been expansionist in, what, 600 years? > Let's not talk about the common mentality of my native Mexico, where > we're like crabs in a bucket. Ever seen a bunch of crabs trying to get > out of a bucket, stepping over everyone else, the ones on top being > dragged by the ones on the bottom, and none of them getting out? Yeah, > let's not talk about that. :-) Very culturally stratified. But many of those of the lower strata who (even if they may not realize it) have the "get up and go" mentality have come up north to work *hard*, so that their families back south can acquire more "stuff" (even if that stuff is only more food and better clothes). - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIKEH+S9HxQb37XmcRAuPnAJ0bQwsiaDyXuwthG8yj1WQxsS2m8gCdGHRC z22gcItz7DIUo6o2nkqn6Rs= =C9jM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
