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On 23/11/2011 1:44 PM, Max Boot wrote:
> not a doctor, not a Hindoo, not Indian Jyotishithead Jay Stevens blabbered:
>
>> Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can
>> change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
>>
>> - Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist (1901-1978)

>
> Ha ha ha ha ha! I always love it when people try to appeal to the
> authority of Margaret Mead. In the early 1970s, some long-haired dirty
> Birkenstock-wearing counterculture fruitcake once asked her in an
> interview what she thought of "macrobiotic" diets; clearly the smelly
> hippy was anticipating a glowing endorsement. Imagine his chagrin when
> she replied, "When you eat macrobiotic food, you aren't eating food -
> you're eating an ideology. I prefer to eat food."


It sounds just like her.

>
> HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! If she were alive, she would say something
> similar to the jyotishithead, Jay Stevens; probably say something
> similar to that crazed crack-smoking lunatic Larry Forti, too.