Re: CEV a Step Backwards

"tomcat" <jlavine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:It all comes down to people. The weak die, the brave win.

No, the stupid die. Being brave doesn't keep you from dying. Ask the
Ethiopians who bravely charged Italian machine guns back in the 1930s.
Oh, wait. You can't. They all died (bravely) while accomplishing
nothing.

:The Japanese know this.

And yet they lost.

:The American Indians know this.

And they lost, too.

:For some reason
:modern America doesn't seem to know this anymore.

Because it is not true and never had been.

Real life isn't at all like the comic books or the movies.

--
"Then tomorrow we may all be dead. But how is that different
from every other day?"
-- Morpheus
.

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