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>> "Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find
>> outside of an advertising agency," sneered novelist Raymond Chandler.
WELCOME TO AMERICA
> Indeed, while I read /every day/ about the many
> virtues of capitalism and the evils of disliked
> Commie dictators,
Let's split hairs, any dictators, or just Commie ones? I wonder where Greg
Kennedy reads this stuff every day, and if maybe the Commie dictators are
rather less odorous than the other kinds?
> the sad truth is that there are
> evils among us, among capitalists. I noted long
> ago the fact of needless duplications, such as
> two "struggling" gas stations on nearby corners,
> each of them splitting the limited business, half
> and half.
ROFL! Imagine one gas store in every town, and what then regulates the
price
of gas?
Let's pity poor Mobil and EXXON, Greg tells us, especically Mobil who made
$17 billion extra bucks recently.
> Here in the Midwest, nearly every
> corner "drugstore" has a copycat rival situated
> kitty-corner, again splitting the business such
> that each store may struggle to make a decent
> profit, their respective employees, naturally being
> less productive in this situation, are paid less to
> suit.
I rarely shop at corner drug-stores, and in fact, no many locals here in
Vermont do. Those places are for people who don't know where the
supermarket
is. But at least the corner stores sell papers where our Greg reads every
day about evil commie dictators, and never about evil Wall-Street; such
information being, we must suppose, heavily repressed in the Mid-West.
> But what really galls is the way that our federal
> government is set up. Nearly everything seems
> to revolve more around the two-party war that is
> ongoing, than about any other issues which may
> pertain. It reminds me a little of the Hatfields and
> the McCoys -- two clans who fought for years
> over the right way to face one's Knights on the
> chess board (or some other "crucial" issue).
Who could argue with that anecdote?
But who could not have noticed that at least one candidate is addressing
more than appearances of things? Perhaps this too is heavily repressed
information in the Mid-West.
> The fact remains that from where I stand, the
> very idea that one's chess rating is indicative of
> self-worth tells a very revealing tale about these
> imbecilic projectionists;
Laugh - one must return again to who's obsession ratings are? Let me
see...
Who actually writes most about that in newsgroups, well, for sure Brennan
does assess it as of evident worth, and protests it for 5 years straight,
and he addresses it to others who feel the same about their worth.
Naturally, it is all a joke, albeit a bitter 5 year struggle against
'them'.
Other people seem content to evaluate ratings as a basis of chess skill,
rather than self-worth. This means that [no offence intended] the views of
1500 players about the games of 2700 players are usually not as valuable
as
those of strong players.
Now, if farmer-Kennedy had a GM in his corn-field, and watched his
pathetic
plowing attempts, then he would recognise that real farmers /aughta/ feel
good about 'the cut worm forgives the plow', and that is entirely natural.
Unclear if those sentiments are in our Greg's corner store newspaper, but
if
not, then he could write a letter tot he editor pointing it out, or not
buy
the newspaper at all, since it is censored by Those Who Must Be Obeyed.
> about how they think
> (or rather, are simply unable to think). From my
> perspective, getting roped into an obsession with
> the game of chess reveals a character flaw; it
> shows an inability to put life into its proper
> perspective. It reminds me of the poor fellow
> whose last act in life was to warn viewers, on
> camera, to not dare try what he and he alone
> had done and was capable of doing: filming
> grizzlies with no protection from being mauled
> and eaten.
It reminds you of that? Have you ever played chess?
You sound like Pravda on a slow news day.
Phil Innes
> That was his last act because, well,
> you can probably guess. To such imbeciles I
> have but one word: bear mace. Okay, that's
> two words... .
>
>
> -- help bot
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