Roger,
many thanks for your answer
We agree on practically everything, so nothing to argue.
Either you are not American, or I'm not Italian..... or, more likely, BOTH; as
always all these US and THEM categories are dangerous, when we go down (up?) to
the individual level.
Just few questions:
> That is what we are fighting against, government abuse
> to support someone against someone else. (For full disclosure you should know
> I was a registered corporate lobbyist in Texas for much of the 90's).
This interests me. You also can answer privately on this non-MOQ thing. Here
"lobbyist" is a sort of blame (worse than "socialist" there, I guess :-) ) An
Italian lobbyist is someone who almost illegally lead the decisions of the
parliament. On the other hand, what does it mean there to be a "registered
corporate lobbyist"?
> I also said that free enterprise may not quite
> work right in a tribalistic/collectivistic ethos.
> (Japan is a case in point)
Bo has written something about the modus vivendi between society and intellect
in the Eastern world. Are you thinking something similar?
> ROG:
> I have lived in
> over half of the top ten cities (in size) in America and in the San Fransisco
> Bay area over the past 20 years, and have felt safe *almost* everywhere in
> all of them (San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Chicago , Denver and SF,
> and I frequently travel through the upper East coast areas).
(as to show that I'm not always against the American way of life). Here in
Europe many think that this "nomadism" is a sign of low quality. That in order
to get quality you should keep safe your roots.
Well, I don't think so. Nomadism has always been a *normal* condition of human
beings. There are good aspects in both nomadism and permanency. I'm longing for
the moment you will move to Europe!
> ROG:
> You have been stressing the need for competing systems for a half year now.
> You taught me well my brother!
Well, I'm a terrible stubborn. Sorry for the stress. :-)
> So, do we have any outstanding issues?
No, I'd say.
Ad Meliora
Marco
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