DM> I apologize for the detour.  What is: "The Salvage Log Rider"?  Sounds
 DM> like the title of a New-Age superhero.  :)  ??
The Salvage Log Rider was a savage butchering of our national forests in the 
name of forest health.
 WE> Religious resurgence, such as fundamentalism comes about when society
 WE> is destablilized, such as NAFTA, down sizing, out sourcing, slashing of
 WE> benefits, etc.  'Tis the handy work of the rich who want more than too
 WE> much, who want everything including unregulated ownership of all
 WE> natural, economic, technological and human resources.
 DM> :)  Rather like the greedy farmer who killed the golden goose. 
No the farmer lived to regret his mistake the next day.
 DM> Unhappily, greed keeps the slave, enslaved ... and the slave-owners,
 DM> fat and sassy.  
Disestablishing society takes too long for the rich to be bothered.  Likely 
the rich heirs will be much bothered.
 DM> It is the slave who must choose whether he wishes to be
 DM> free ... or not.  :-) 
Some chose death.  It was a problem slave merchants had to cope with.
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