Double Flee A

it depends who you ask

via google search:
"If the twentieth century has taught us anything",

See if you can match the statements to who made them.

...it is that a "war to end all wars" often leads to bigger ones, and that man is the same volatile mix of good and evil he has always been.
...it is to be suspicious of those who put all their hope in science as the explainer of everything.
...it's that people are not as pliable as some utopian (or dystopian) political thinkers want to believe.
...it is that free markets work better than any other kind.
...it has shown us the ways in which individual and official memories often conflict.
...it is that large-scale, centralized government does not work.
...it is that the word impossible doesn't exist.
...it has taught us that there is not one of us who, under certain circumstances, could not be conditioned to support the hero-leader who would "redeem" the world at the push of a glowing red button.

* The American Scientific Affiliation, a fellowship of men and women in science and disciplines that relate to science who share a common fidelity to the Word of God
* a sermon on the epistle to the hebrews
* Kofi Annan
* a couple of artists alluding to Japanese internment camps
* a page about if there were no birds
* John Gordon, The Business of America
* The Harvard Salient, [an unbearably smug] fortnightly journal of political thought
* some guy at zdnet

It just keeps going like that, so I didn't feel I had to continue.

posted by dale @ 4:01 PM