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From: Sean Adams
T1: adamss78@hotmail.com
Date: 12/6/99
Time: 7:10:53 PM
Remote Name: 216.164.190.230
<I think that if we learned anything in this <class it is that the government should never be <trusted
Okay. I just wrote a really long response to this post. However, this dumb thing erased it all, with one tap of the "backspace" key; and I do not have time to redo it. So I will summarize what I had said:
I observed that the person from whom I quoted the above material had no ground on which to stand, when he called the rest of the class conformists, since he too is conforming to a certain idea--namely, that the US is bad no matter what, that the goverment cannot be trusted, etc. His belief that the government cannot be trusted is not original; he did not come up with it on his own. Instead, it was told to him by someone else, who in turn heard it from someone else, who in turn heard it from someone else, etc. He is merely regurgitating the material from his own conformist self.
I do not wish to create the impression that I am not a conformist. Of course I am. I too have certain beliefs about the US government, and its role in Vietnam and other countries, to which I cling. In fact, many of those views are virtually identical to those of the "non-conformist"; however, I do not pretend that I am somehow special for having those views. Just as the government has an agenda for preaching its side of the story, so do the people from whom the "non-conformist" got his ideas have their own agenda (and Dr. Furr, I do not mean that to be insulting).
Ben Chitty also is a conformist. His views about the world are colored by the preconceptions he has about the world. The impression I received from him was that "America=bad, VVAW=good." Of course, both organizations have their own agenda, and each is as blind as the other.
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