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From: richard@aplvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: petty flames suck
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Date: Wed, 13-Jul-83 09:15:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 13 09:15:19 1983
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	Why is there so much silly discussion about smoking and speed
limits and spelling (!) and other trivial issues when the U.S. and the
rest of the world is in so much REAL trouble?
	With an incompetent like Reagan in the white house (a nice guy,
politically astute, but NO reasonable or coherent policy on any issue),
a congress that is more concerned with pork-barrelling than facing the
economic and geo-political problems plaguing the world, WHY aren't we
all screaming bloody murder and doing something about it?
	Some theories:
		- We don't care if the world goes to hell.
		- We blow up trivial issues out of all proportion to mask
		  the really important ones, so that we can ignore them.
		- We are ignorant of what't really going on outside of our CRTs.
		- We have a warped sense of what's really important.
		- We are stupid enought to think that Reagan and Congress are
		  doing a good job(?!!!!).
		- I don't know.
	I am an optimist nevertheless.  But sometimes I think that if 
we get through this mess into a world that is satisfying to live in,
a world where children don't go to bed hungry and we're in no danger of
vaporizing humanity with inane "national security" plans, it's be
in spite of ourselves, not because of ourselves.
	If we all paid a little more attention to making things better instead
of bitching about how the other guy smokes or drives too fast, we'd all have
a better place to live.
					- Rich Greenberg