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 | | From: | John Openshaw | | Subject: | Re: How about the license for LPC10 algorithm? | | Date: | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:00:15 GMT |
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communities do exist in America today. For instance, youth gangs and
"cults". Everyone regards them as dangerous, and so they are, because
the members of these groups are loyal primarily to one another rather
than to the system, hence the system cannot control them. Or take the
gypsies. The gypsies commonly get away with theft and fraud because
their loyalties are such that they can always get other gypsies to
give testimony that "proves" their innocence. Obviously the system
would be in serious trouble if too many people belonged to such
groups. Some of the early-20th century Chinese thinkers who were
concerned with modernizing China recognized the necessity of breaking
down small-scale social groups such as the family: "(According to Sun
Yat-sen) The Chinese people needed a new surge of patriotism, which
would lead to a transfer of loyalty from the family to the state. .
.(According to Li Huang) traditional attachments, particularly to the
family had to be abandoned if nationalism were to develop to China."
(Chester C. Tan, Chinese Political Thought in the Twentieth Century,"
page 125, page 297.)
8. (Paragraph 56) Yes, we know that 19th century America had its
problems, and serious ones, but for the sake of breviety we have to
express ourselves in simplified terms.
9. (Paragraph 61) We leave aside the underclass. We are speaking of
the mainstream.
10. (Paragraph 62) Some social scientists, educators, "mental health"
professionals and the like are doing their best to push the social
drives int
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