…because what we're talking about here is the quality of the human experience of the living world. And you know John Donne said: every man's death diminishes me, every person's suffering diminishes your happiness. I personally have found it in the last…

…very, very fine to cultivate one's self and one's community, but it is no substitute for polity. Ultimately your responsibility, as John Donne said is every man. If your buddha and the REST of us all succumb to epidemic diseases, it's a sorry statement…

…whatever. Or as some great catastrophic lava flow had somewhere else you know mount st helens erupted or something. Well I think John Donne covered this territory. No man is an island entirely himself. Each is a part of the continent, a part of a name.…