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I've been in recovery from illness and injury. (I note when I
mentioned this to the list some time back it generated debate about
whether or not I was truthful about it...)

I'll just say that I'm lucky to be alive, and pinging you back.

Noel Maersk:
> There hasn't been mail to this list for a while now, makes me
> wonder if it's just me, or there's something wrong on the other
> end.
>
> I thought of sending something relevant, just to see if it goes
> through, but nothing really came to mind.
>
> Only thing perhaps is a recent talk with a few friends on the
> nature of authority, their argument being that power hierarchies is
> what made humanity safer. That people in general don't want to
> assume responsibility, and so passively follow a leader.
>
> They weren't concise on why, but among the reasons were ignorance,
> indifference, lack of aspiration, and the like. Thinking about it
> now, it strikes me how they didn't mention fear.
>
> It makes me feel sad - I think now they were talking not about
> "people in general", but themselves, perhaps unknowingly, perhaps
> in a detached fashion.
>
> It's also hard to argue about these things with other westerners.
> We think too much that everybody is like us, and even those who
> like to travel tend to praise what they've known for ages, once
> they're settled back in.
>
> The "nature of authority" and similar phrases are, of course,
> oxymorons I use here for lack of words and memory to reproduce the
> discussion verbatim.
>
> Anyway, just wanted to test if this list thingie still works, and
> thought it's best to have some entropy in the message. Now, repeat
> after me:
>
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do
> eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...
>
>
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