I am fascinated by the fact that the enthusiastic relative newcomer Max has brought up so many ideas and issues that we have already discussed to one degree or another.

"Entusiastic newcomer" - what a charming euphemism for "lazy oaf who clumsily rehashes threads for which he was too lazy to look." I thank you for your graciousness. Surely the very nature of this board would ensure that those who posted to it shared a very specific commonality of interests. I am largely ignorant of psychology - "collective unconscious" suggests little more to me than a sleeping kibbutz - so I will simply say that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and finish with that superlative non sequitur. Adieu.

"Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of humanity" - Albert Einstein