Last message date: Thu 02 Dec 1999 - 15:56:02 PST
Archived on: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 16:56:46 PST
"We Americans produce miserable ruins. While other empires leave behind the glories of their civilizations -- the Parthenon, the Colosseum -- we leave behind the detritus of our unsustainable enthusiasms. In our homes, most of us have a closet where we keep the remains of failed hobbies, the beer-making kit, for instance, as well as the binoculars and the Audubon guides. The dot-com moment was the same sort of thing on a massive scale." - David Brooks, New York Times Magazine