Ed Weick replied:
> How beautifully smug! I understand that your bankers made quite a lot of
> money from the gold and jewelry that the Nazis took from death-camp victims.
> Europe, if you read its history, was a cesspool of wars, repressions and
> mass exterminations. And it was Europeans who brought diseases and
> enslavement to the Americas, accounting for the destruction of civilizations
> and the deaths of perhaps 100 million people. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
> get into this one, but on reading the above self-congratulatory puffery, I
> just couldn't help it. But perhaps I misunderstood. Perhaps you intent was
> some form of comic irony.
Basically my smug description of Europe was a parody of Ray's smug
description of America (or vice-versa for the negative descriptions).
Then again, your above criticism misses the point as it talks of the
(distant) past, whereas my comparisions referred to the present
(according to Ray's appeal to "live in the present"). [And much
could be said about the role of US bankers in nazi/other wars.]
Sorry for the off-topic post,
the following one is on-topic...
Chris
