tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post114046140167208746..comments2024-03-28T08:37:58.136+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: a pygmy speaksRoger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-1140501712990371762006-02-21T07:01:00.000+01:002006-02-21T07:01:00.000+01:00Winn, you've reminded me of Mandeville's satire, t...Winn, you've reminded me of Mandeville's satire, the Fable of the Bees. <BR/><BR/>Here's a bit of it:<BR/><BR/>These Insects lived like Men, and all<BR/>Our Actions they perform'd in small:<BR/>They did whatever's done in Town, [15]<BR/>And what belongs to Sword, or Gown:<BR/>Tho' th'Artful Works, by nible Slight;<BR/>Of minute Limbs, 'scaped Human Sight<BR/>Yet we've no Engines; Labourers,<BR/>Ships, Castles, Arms, Artificers, <BR/>Craft, Science, Shop, or Instrument,<BR/>But they had an Equivalent:<BR/>Which, since their Language is unknown,<BR/>Must be call'd, as we do our own.<BR/>As grant, that among other Things <BR/>They wanted Dice, yet they had Kings;<BR/>And those had Guards; from whence we may<BR/>Justly conclude, they had some Play;<BR/>Unless a Regiment be shewn<BR/>Of Soldiers, that make use of none."<BR/><BR/>Bees with dice, don't you love it? I suppose they can't say, come on, mamma needs a new pair of shoes -- cause they all have the same mamma.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-1140497207149025242006-02-21T05:46:00.000+01:002006-02-21T05:46:00.000+01:00I can't read Fukuyama- I get hoarse screaming at t...I can't read Fukuyama- I get hoarse screaming at the page. I marvel at the staying power to get through an entire book without getting laryngitis. <BR/><BR/>The zombies will blame the liberals, of course! And those dirty welfare queens/kings who were not sufficiently full of pluck, ingenuity and the AMERICAN WAY to be born to plutocrats. Drones that don't cluster around the exits to the bee hive on a late autumn day to die are not playing the game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com