Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!BROWNVM!PH408014 From: PH408014@BROWNVM.BITNET (Tim Johnson) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.disarm-l Subject: Re: Sigma Century Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 90 23:02:23 GMT Sender: Disarmament Discussion List Reply-To: Disarmament Discussion List Lines: 18 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.BITNET Gateway From: Leonard Abbey >As the end of the century heaves into view, I think that it is appropriate >to look back and see how well we have done in the expiring one. > >I propose that the Twentieth Century has been a century of unmitigated >horror, and unimaginable sorrow. > >Does anybody have anything good to say about it? Does this proposal imply that any of the preceding centuries have been any better? I would say that mankind is a beast which thrives by inflicting and creating unmitigated horror, etc... Or, if you would rather, the existence of humanity is sufficient for the human condition to be one of unmitigated horror, etc.... What you describe, Len, is not the nature of the century, but the nature of the beast. -Tim"Mr. Misanthrope"J