Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:43:22 +0100
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)
Subject: Re: spectacle vs truth


Cologne 26-Dec-2003

Malcolm Riddoch schrieb Thu, 25 Dec 2003 03:27:51 +0800:

> On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, at 08:04  PM, Michael Eldred wrote:
>
> > No wonder the philosopher cries _lathae biosas_ and sticks to his
> > garden, or is
> > content to play games with the kids at the temple of Artemis.
>
> Yes well at least we'll have a paper ballot in 2004 to dump Howard
> with. I trust you'll be absentee voting for the Greens, Michael? Check
> out the hilarious US electronic voting systems
> http://blackboxvoting.org/ .
>
> Only in America. Or Putin's Russia maybe.
>
> mr
>

Malcolm,
I've been absent from absentee voting for decades now.

German Green politics makes me puke. They have just as strong a tendency
to multiply the regulations and tighten the State's stranglehold as the
SPD or CDU/CSU. The discussion has now started in German politics on a
reform (purportedly: simplification) of the entire taxation system. If it
succeeds, they'll whittle down the number of taxation laws from 206 at
present to maybe 199, and the number of taxation regulations from 96,000
at present to, say, 92,000, and then declare what a great success the
'reform' has been.

It seems to me that a big problem for those living in the US is that the
specific weight (gravitational pull) of the US in the world politically,
economically, militarily, life-style-wise, media-wise is so enormous that
it is almost impossible to get a feel for or a glimpse of what it is like
to live elsewhere than in America.

Cheers,
Michael
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