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    the Russias went through a similar physical transformation.  When

    Count Kokovtsov entered the czar's residence at Tsarskoye Selo for an

    audience on January 19, 1917, he was appalled by what he found.  Says

    Russia expert Harrison Salisbury, Kokovtsov "hardly recognized the

    Czar, so much had he aged.  His face was thin, his cheeks sunken, his

    eyes almost without color, the whites yellow and the pupils gray and

    lifeless.  They wandered vaguely from object to object." 13

    On the other hand, Kerensky, the leader of the victorious

    Socialist party, the Mensheviks, was invigorated like the bee who finds

    her cargo in great demand.  Suddenly Kerensky was catapulted from a

    position as a factional leader to head of state, leader of the Duma--the

    parliamentary body that now controlled the country.  As he rushed to

    the Duma's podium and took command, witnesses said that Kerensky

    seemed to become a physically larger man.  "He grew," exclaimed V.V.

    Shulgin, a monarchist Duma deputy who was present when Kerensky

    brought order to the confused deliberative chambers, "He grew in the

    mud of the Revolution."14

    In neural nets built by computer specialists, nodes that are

    needed to solve a current problem are strengthened.  The nodes no

    longer necessary weaken and shut down.  The same thing happens

    with human beings.

    Like bees, we are in constant contact.  Clint Eastwood rides into

    town from the desert, carrying his own gun, and shares his thoughts

    with no one. On the other hand, when you watch a classic Clint

    Eastwood film, you're generally seated at your television.  A half an

    hour before you saw the picture, you watched the news.  That

    broadcast gave you a sense of where your country stood in the relative

    hierarchy of nations at that moment.  The economic portion gave a

    feeling of the health of the superorganism of which you are a part.  The

    ads conveyed an impression of the group posture on everything from

    hairstyles to automobiles.  By the time you go to bed at night, you've

    exchanged information with dozens of people.  You've absorbed data

    that has brought you in touch with every level of your society.

      m his grasp and a Revolution was in the offing, the Emperor of All

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