It seems my puerile attempts concerning our friends on the other side of the Atlantic at wit have stirred up a hornets nest on a topic that has a nasty habit of tying up the last regularly on a series of futile arguements. I apologise for any offence caused and if anybody still feels like giving me the stick I deserve, will they please send it to me privately so as to prevent listee repetitive strain injury from deleting all the flak aimed at me. I have E-mailed Keith M privately requesting that he not leave the list just because of my lapse. I would like to think,to lessen my feelings of guilt and responsibility, that Keith was already suffering from some sort of dissatisfaction with the list. I am not proud at all to cause such grave offence to an individual. I do believe that my perceived currentUS cultural imperialism is a a product of historical natural selection. By this, I mean that the most powerful/successful nation's values historically have left a cultural residue over their sphere of interest. The British having been in a similar position of global power 2 centuries ago with the same accusations being equally valid against the Brits.Having said that, I feel that the Western capitalist way has a positve affect globally and is good a system as anything else the World has seen so far. As I said earlier, if anybody disagrees with what after all is only my opinion please take it up with me privately. I shall now return the Andrews salts to the cupboard and remain verbally constipated regarding the list until the Eclipse in August 1999 when MacDonaldian darkness will descend again. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+