Re: LOTR and 20th Century Western European Prejudices

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:06:06 GMT, Jette Goldie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>"Jeffrey C. Dege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> I don't know anyone who, when they've thought about it a while, really
>> understands why we bothered to get involved in WWI.
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>> It was our most fundamental mistake.
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>Yep, if you'd kept out of it, you'd still be a third world
>power.

The US was the leading economic power in the world, even then.  And as
long as we were leading the third world, unaligned in the pointless
disputes that drove the scorpion pit that was European politics, the
world as a whole was a better place.

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As I understand it, deconstructionism is a form of literary criticism that
is intended to demonstrate the fundamental meaninglessness of literature.
IMO, what it demonstrates is the fundamental meaninglessness of literary
criticism.