OK, one last time

[Bill Troop bill@xxxxxxxx]

> What he said!
> .... [borderline] obsessive-compulsive... keep it short


I'm a dreadful last-ditcher, so I can't resist just one more

word on the subject in view les temps detestable.


I'm an avid supporter both of conventional germ theory and of traditional [alternative] medicine. Morris is too rigid for

my taste, though obviously well-meaning, but there is a small

degree to which I agree with his criticism of the germ-theory

mindset, and that is where it is extrapolated to politics and

other areas of life. I think it should be left to medicine. I was

much struck by news reports of the sentencing of one of the

older WTC terrorists a couple of years ago. The judge spoke

of the prisoner as a virus to be eradicated, etc. This language

chillingly mirrored favorite phrases of Goebbels and Hitler  I

was at that time reading about in Gitta Sereny's riveting

journalistic biography, 'Albert Speer, His Struggle With

Truth.' The Nazis were mad about exploiting the "germ-

theory mindset" as I will call it, to abet the destruction of

their enemies, as no doubt many others have done in what

we may call the 'germ theory generations.' That seems to

me dangerous. So pervasive is the mindset that it is

difficult for me to characterize my own off-topic spouting

as anything but a hideous virus, almost impossible to cure.