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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:56:05 -0500
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- Thanks for your reflections on the experience we Americans have shared in
- differing ways. I don't know where to begin in trying to find out why we
- see it as differently as we do. I am dissatisfied and you are dissatisfied.
- I am impressed by the achievements of others who were dissatisfied. You are
- not. I think that the work left to be done should be done. I believe you
- agree. I think that in order to do that work, we can build on the work of
- others, learning from their successes and failures. You would apparently
- not agree with that since you do not see that they had successes. This is,
- indeed, if it is not just rhetoric, a fundamental difference not likely to be
- resolved in discussion. When there is a large body of agreement, it is
- possible to argue the details. One can specify a failure or short-coming and
- ask why it should be considered to be a failure of Reagan-Bush if, as you seem
- to assume, society is composed of people who don't care. In that case,
- Reagan-Bush have nothing to do with it. Your protgonist is the society. And
- what view of our Government do you have if you believe that Presidents who
- neither controlled the legislatures of the federal government nor were very
- influential in most of the states. You want to leave quotas out of the
- discussion. OK. But could you let me know whether you think that WE all
- are an enemy to whom you can preach but which won't listen? Do you think that
- there are some decent human beings out there somewhere? How many are they?
- Are they not the majority? Why not? I suppose if my view of the world were
- the one I FEEL is yours, I would not try to change the world. I would just
- avoid people. MY world is composed of frail and imperfect people like myself
- with incomplete visions of the world. They search with no hopes of OWNING
- truth but simply trying to get as close to it as they can. The search and
- its results have transformed the world in my lifetime, making further searching
- that much easier. I'm sorry it doesn't impress you. I still hope you make use
- of it.
- Jon L.
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