Let's have another round of Tom Lehrer's "We Are The Folk Song Army"

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Let's have another round of Tom Lehrer's "We Are The Folk Song Army"

I think "We Will All Go Together When We Go" is more befitting the current
atmosphere..

"Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" is much more fun..

TW3!

I never have liked pop music.I like the old slow real music and songs
from the early 1950's and beyond.
cuhulin

cuhu was not part of the hip listeners which brought down the Berlin
wall, was too busy surfing for Patty Page tunes on his webtv box...

Best music to me is Wagner's _Der Ring des Niebelungen_, so I'll be
prepared if ever dwarfs and dragons become a threat 8^]

You are right,Hatfield,I was not part of the hip generation.East Germany
and East Germany's economy was in shambles.The "wall" was going to come
down anyway.reagan had nothing to do with it.I saw where the cold war
monument was done away with,recently.The cold war never ended,it only
simmered down for a while.It is back on again.
cuhulin

"East Germany and East Germany's economy was in shambles. "

Excellent point. Reagan didn't cause E. Germany nor Russian GNP to be
so low, and it was economic realities which ultimately toppled
communist Europe, not politics.

Most Islamic countries have terribly low income, too. Ditto for Latin
America who are all Catholic. Protestant countries, like Scandinavia,
the U.K., Germany, U.S.A., the Dutch, seem wealthier. But so are non
Christian Japan, Taiwan, and then too China is making great progress.
On the other hand Hindu India has rock bottom standard of living.

What makes some nations wealthy, some not? Religion, economic system?
Not education because India are full of the educated poor. Not music
either, witness the tone dead skree skraw atonal noise of Japanese
theatre, whose nation is fabulously wealthy.

I have no answers, but somehow perhaps it occurs to me that religion or
tradition or values seem to be most important to the ultimate economic
success of a people, a nation, a culture.

On 9 Jul 2005 00:37:18 -0700, "Hatfield"
wrote:

"East Germany and East Germany's economy was in shambles. "

Excellent point. Reagan didn't cause E. Germany nor Russian GNP to be
so low, and it was economic realities which ultimately toppled
communist Europe, not politics.

Most Islamic countries have terribly low income, too. Ditto for Latin
America who are all Catholic. Protestant countries, like Scandinavia,
the U.K., Germany, U.S.A., the Dutch, seem wealthier. But so are non
Christian Japan, Taiwan, and then too China is making great progress.
On the other hand Hindu India has rock bottom standard of living.

What makes some nations wealthy, some not? Religion, economic system?
Not education because India are full of the educated poor. Not music
either, witness the tone dead skree skraw atonal noise of Japanese
theatre, whose nation is fabulously wealthy.

I have no answers, but somehow perhaps it occurs to me that religion or
tradition or values seem to be most important to the ultimate economic
success of a people, a nation, a culture.

Material abundance does not equal wealth.