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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Again about decaying

Patrizia:

Nicely done.

I'd like you to expand a tad, if you will, on what's led this race to the bottom and how that came to happen.

Your diagnosis seems correct, I'd love to hear the etiology of this malady.

Cheers, Jorge



The greatest days of Rome were its days of decline.
(I am Italian)

It is more elegant, wise and stylish to decay than to flourish.
I too prefer constructive decay to futile progress.
It is much more stylish to live in a quiet and slightly disintegrating manor house than in a super modern and noisy condominium.
But then, one must know how to decay.
You may desire to decay, yet your splendid human qualities may keep you on the top, or else, you may overdo it and decay a shade too speedily.

The fact is that people get old and Nations get old too.
May be declining is not such a bad destiny, you even risk to achieve wisdom with it...

Have a good day
Patrizia

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