Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 14:07:12 -0500 (EST) From: wesley david cecil <wcecil-AT-indiana.edu> Subject: Re: stats In response to Jukka's comments it would seem that we understand are world no better nor worse than anyone ever has. Also, it would seem to me that if the modern world is not a mess, what could possibly qualify as one? I mean our world is serisouly fucked up, which is to say it follows quite logically from what we know about all societies preceding ours, equally messed up but in different ways. So, unless we subscribe to an enlightenment project wherein the truth shall make us free(which I clearly do not) stats are not worthless, but they are also not solutions, nor even unproblematically helpful. Wes ------------------
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