At 02:32 PM 6/7/2002 -0700, Gregory Rapawy wrote: >Many historical and current cultures and regimes have >made and now make extravagant claims about how their >particular structure is (1) an inevitable consequence >of physical reality or other natural law; (2) too >well-entrenched ever to be shaken; (3) supported by >overwhelming force too great to exist. At any given >point in time these claims may appear from an internal >(or even a contemporaneous external) perspective to be >true, and then may either suddenly or gradually come >to be not true. Heh. Give me a week and I'll make a Marxist out of you. :-)