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Entry: The Wines of Provence and the Armies of Allah Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_wines_of_provence_and_the_armies_of_allah#1556 Post contents: “If you want men to build good boats, first teach them how to love the sea.” Karl Marx believed in the opposite, so stupidly. The love of Nature and all that did not happen until Romantism for before that Nature was entirely too inconvenient, dangerous and unprofitable. And that included the sea. Only fools fear not the sea. You don't start out loving the sea and then build boats. You learn to swim, use logs and so on for practical reasons, and then eventually you learn to build ships and when you no longer expect to die by drowning, then (and not before) you start loving the sea. In the bad old days every third sailor drowned. Me, I side with Marx. Sent at: 2008 09 05