[lit-ideas] Re: National Symbols

  • From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:47:28 -0500

John: It's a dangerous world. No, duh, always has been.


Eric: You are missing two things here: (1) The speed of the danger has increased. Missiles travel faster than the Spanish Armada. Saboteurs arrive by jet, not by sailing ships as in Marlowe's time. (2) The scope of danger has increased. Nuclear explosions outclass cannon fire. Anthrax can kill more innocents than a bunch of brigands with cutlasses.


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