Posted by noa on June 7, 2003, at 16:14:14
In reply to Re: Mildly Sociopathic, posted by JohnDoenut on June 7, 2003, at 1:14:02
>Help yourself so you can be with more nurturing and caring people!
John is right.
Today I was watching part of a documentary on the fall of the Soviet Union. The part that interested me was the interview of a man who was an economics graduate student in the late 80's, Anatoly (?) Chubais, who later went on to be part of the Gorbachov and Yeltsin reform governements. He described his experience of being unable to get any of his professors to discuss market economics with him as feeling like either he was crazy and the world around him was sane, or he was sane and the world around him was crazy. So he started to gather small groups of academics in cabins in the woods for secret seminars to discuss ideas that were banned from public discourse. Which is akin to John's notion of surrounding yourself with people who will not just perpetuate the distortions of the world you find yourself in.
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