From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Fri Mar 30 2001 - 21:12:43 MST
In a message dated 3/22/01 8:00:34 AM Central Standard Time,
bradbury@aeiveos.com writes:
> Perhaps we can vote on "The Darkest Days List" at Extro5.
>
> Note, in my brief thinking about this, it is (for me) hard to
> come up with "Darkest Days" outside of the area of space
> exploration.
I'd certainly add the decision by default made by the founders of the US
republic to postpone the abolition of slavery. As a matter of practical
politics at the time, it probably wasn't really possible, but that neglect by
the gentlemen in Philadelphia marked a turning of the tide for liberty and
the Enlightenment that took far too much blood, sweat and tears to reverse ...
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