Re: THe OverRelational Manifesto (ORM)

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:41:51 GMT
Message-ID: <PDX1g.52663$P01.33945@pd7tw3no>

Marshall Spight wrote:
> paul c wrote:
>

>>Marshall Spight wrote:
>>
>>>...
>>>I still don't like name-calling, though. I still think it's
>>>intellectually
>>>unnecessary, and I still think ad-hominem reasoning is
>>>logically invalid.
>>
>>A grand comparison compared to narrow db interests I'll admit, but WWII,
>>at least part of it, might not have happened if Neville Chamberlain had
>>been into ad-hominem logic instead of religious politeness.

>
>
> Many historians have searched for the true origins of the second
> world war. Anti-semitism, rising nationalism, and resentment over
> the treaty of Versailles have all been cited, but now we know
> that the true culprits were "please" and "thank-you."
>
>
> Marshall
>

Wishful thinking on any of the counts and some of the 'historians' didn't have to search far as they lived it and I'm not talking about Edward R. Murrow. Codd knew that politesse had nothing to do with it. After you cut through the dogma, it's economic nationalism every time. Sorry I'm off-topic, will shut up now.

p Received on Thu Apr 20 2006 - 21:41:51 CDT