The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109070   Message #2276237
Posted By: Rapparee
29-Feb-08 - 09:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are we heading for a new dark age?
Subject: RE: BS: Are we heading for a new dark age?
LH, I give lots and lots of things the verdict of "Not Proven." It means that I can always come back and render a correct verdict (from my point of view, of course) when there is more evidence one way or the other.

I also think of Andrew Carnegie's statement that "The man who dies rich dies disgraced." He was a robber baron and quite a few things, but it appears that he did try to live by that rule, giving away about 75% of his fortune to found libraries (as well as the Carnegie Foundation).

Mind you, I think that he might have given his workers a bit of a better deal and collected a little less money himself. But the principle still stands -- and there are going to be a lot of disgraces before long.