Re: LOTR and 20th Century Western European Prejudices

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 01:16:33 -0800, MasterDebater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>It was America's time. Our time to become the dominant superpower. Britain's
>time was over. Evolution.

It's not so much that it was America's "time", as that the US had been the
world's dominant economic power for quite some time, and the UK was not.

-- 
It is impossible to address the problem of rampant crime without talking
about the moral responsibility of the intended victim. Crime is rampant
because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it,
submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back,
immediately, then and there, where it happens. Crime is not rampant
because we do not have enough prisons, because judges and prosecutors are
too soft, because the police are hamstrung with absurd technicalities. The
defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of coward and shirkers.
                - Jeffrey R. Snyder, "A Nation of Cowards"