>John: Societies that go in this direction are defective, less >creative,
>less adaptive than those which stress both individuality >and community. I
>feel you are responding to the nightmare polarity >I spoke of above.
>
>Gerry: Exactly. And as I've repeatedly stated, both individual and
>community are what's important.
I guess it's possible to tread the fine line in the middle. This
certainly
would be the ideal state of a good democracy but the cultural pendulum
keeps on swinging back and forth.
- gLeN
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Gerry: But isn't the great sweep of the cultural pendulum what
democracy's all about? If we nestle into the center of the arc, then we
become socialists; at the left sweep of the pendulum we're anarchists
and at the right extreme we are "John Birchers".
Gerry
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