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Max 05:54 pm UTC 07/23/07 |
| In reply to: | re: do you like The Wizard Of Oz & stories by L. Frank Baum - rockfenris2005 11:42 am UTC 07/23/07 |
| It would certainly be interesting to compare Baum's vision of societal natural selection with The Dream Engine: "And this, sir, is why a broken bargain with the Iroquois tribe is avenged by Vietcong warriors; why the smashing of the Inca temples is avenged by new African Armies, burning the ghettos and dancing with the flames!" > > > > Thanks for the great Baum quote: > > "The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of > > civilization, are masters of the American continent" > > > > > > > > It's too complicated to explain. I don't advocate it at > all but it's lot more complicated than it seems. See > "Annotated Wizard Of Oz" and that will explain it to you > > | |
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