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TO THE EDITOR
transportation, all breaking gasoline addic-
tion (Hallelujah!). Instead of guns and cars,
cool bikes and guitars. No matter what one’s
circumstances, no one can steal the paint-
brush to one’s imagination. (Tom Petty’s
song “Can’t Stop the Sun” comes to mind).
Feel, taste, smell, hear and see this world with
every fiber of your being!
As a songwriter/artist I not only compose
for money and to make my friends happy; I
wish to restore a glimmer of light and hope to
humankind. Dreaming is our best defense.
Ceila (Starshine) Levine
Eugene
GENE-BOUND
I could not help, after reading Mr.
Crowley’s response (8/9) to Mr, Andrews’
letter to the editor (7/26), [but think] that Mr.
Crowley doesn’t get it, or is in denial himself,
or simply arrogant regarding his own “spiri-
tual” superiority. Mr Andrews simply states
facts regarding human genetic behavior now,
and from our short evolutionary past. He’s
not fearful of Latin Americans or any other
ethnic group, and he’s not a pseudo-spiritual-
ist. This is obvious to me after reading his let-
ter and that of Chris Williamson’s from sev-
eral weeks ago regarding the illegal immigra-
tion problem.
If we were not bound by our genes, we
could fly like birds, hear like elephants or
swim like dolphins. Our limitations are not
merely physical but also mental since our
degradation of the environment, our continu-
ous killing of one another by the millions,
human-caused famine, all sorts of repression,
all stem from our mental functions. That, too,
is limited by our genes. Mr. Andrews cor-
rectly states that most of our actions to this
date are negative in nature and that very little
in the positive has occurred to this date; oth-
erwise we would not be in the desperate situ-
ation that we are in today — and that we need
to get to know and live within our limitations,
which we are not currently doing.
Mr. Crowley points to Oregon’s Measure
37 as being “super” important, and not illegal
immigration. Sorry pal, small potatoes! The
environmental degradation has and will con-
tinue for quite sometime. The only chance of
survival is by some fast human evolution by
the way of genetic mutation; otherwise,
we’re on a fast track to extinction.
Human beings are not the center of the
universe and need to start acting like we
aren’t.
Peter Browne
Eugene
GIVE ME A DULL ROAR
What it is about restaurant owners and
decorators who put such a premium on style
they ignore the noise build-up that occurs
with all the glass, steel, wood and hard sur-
faces?
This month I went with three friends to try
out Davis’, the new restaurant at Broadway
and Olive. But it was so noisy we realized we
couldn’t hear each other and went elsewhere.
For the same reason we no longer go to
Lucky Noodle. And I have friends who tell
me the same is true for them regarding Café
Zenon and the new P.F. Chang losing their
business.
It is not rocket science. Many restaurants
(Kuraya’s, Ambrosia, Ring of Fire, Cafe
Soriah, Marché) manage to keep noise levels
down to a dull roar. Even new restaurants
with lots of glass and and hard surfaces (Thai
Basil, Three Square) seem to have figured it
out.
Do the owners have a clue of how much
business they are losing?
Martin Henner
Eugene
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LINN-BENTON BLUES
Cheers to the liberals for their half-assed
gesture toward ending the war in Iraq. Where
would we all be without the Democratic
Party’s commitment to acting on the will of
the cannon-fodder who make their barely ef-
fectual appeasements a possibility? Then
again, who would know the difference? At 20
years old, I look to my peers and see a gener-
ation that doesn’t seem to mind that it’s al-
ready doomed to suffer from the dubious re-
sults of our dependency upon warfare in its
myriad forms.
Having lived some 15 years of in the
drug-saturated pit-hole that continues to be
Albany, Ore., among its various mill workers,
meth and heroin addicts, I have these modest
insights into this national obsession to offer.
This Albany/Corvallis area represents an
absolutely delicious cross-section of the war-
fare culture. Here we have rare metals plants
with which to arm ourselves, plenty of high
school dropouts (and other indigent merce-
naries) with whom to wage our wars without
having to suffer the political fallout of draft-
ing white college students and a legion of
hopelessly addicted denizens to buy the drugs
produced in countries that our leaders decide
to incorporate into the global web of the free
market (by invading them first, of course).
Really, it’s a win-win situation.
Unless you disagree with these acts but
still pay the taxes that fund them. Or unless
you’re horribly maimed or die fighting them.
But who cares about those people? As long as
the government isn’t wasting our tax dollars
on something peripheral like health care or
education.
I hear many elders speak of today’s youth
as apathetic and unmotivated to engage soci-
ety. Like their debt, our elders seem intent on
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