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["M. Fioretti" <mfioretti@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 12:44:52 PM -0400, Bryan J. Smith
(b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx) wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 18:06 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
> > really made me laugh. Of course there are several things I'd like
> > Italy (or Europe) to copy from USA, but certainly not their "wealth
> > and prosperity".
> 
> I don't think people realize what I meant.

Bryan,

thanks (and I mean it) for taking the time to explain again your point
of view. However, I had already said that I agree with several of your
statements, including those in your last reply.

I only quoted that sentence because it's (more or less) the only one
of your original post which I *still* find terribly funny and untrue
(*regardless* of how much you actually meant it, or how many USA
citizens actually think that way). Really.

"Wealth and prosperity" means very different things in different
cultures. Rest assured that what most others envy about USA is _not_
what passes for "wealth and prosperity" among most USA _citizens_ (not
media).  If you still need convincing, have you noticed that another
subscriber reacted to the same sentence, and to that only, with very
similar arguments?  That's all I found necessary to remark, and I
stand by what I said.

If you want to continue this discussion privately, that's OK with me,
since I wasn't trolling. Let's just take this terribly off topic
thread off list.

Ciao,
	Marco

-- 
Marco Fioretti                    mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 5 for low memory      http://www.rule-project.org/

Go ahead, capitalize the T on technology, deify it if it will make you
feel less responsible -- but it puts you in with the neutered,
brother, in with the eunuchs keeping the harem of our stolen Earth for
the numb and joyless hardons of human sultans, human elite with no
right at all to be where they are -- T. Pynchon, _Gravity's Rainbow_

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