Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:59:14PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
> What I find so appalling about society is that no matter how much we are
> told to study history so we don't fall into the doing the same mistakes
> again, we seem to be doing just that.
>
> You would think that past lessons would have taught the leaders of the
> world a thing or two, but looking at the problems in our world, things
> for the most part have not improved. If anything they've gotten worse
> because now we have a lot of people like me who sit behind a computer
> for several hours a day doing nothing but staring at a screen and
> bashing at a keyboard.
>
Late Thirties through to the middle 40s had the Nazis. The outside
world claimed they didn't know the horrors untill the camps were
reached. Individually, countries didn't act until their downfall was
immenent, which was too late for most of them.
Today, we have Darfur and elsewhere....
Doug.
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