Thomas Lunde wrote:
>
> Tom Walker wrote:
>
> Consider that "those who are benefiting from the current system" are,
> in a
> sense, hostages of the current system. Consider that it is fear rather
> than
> privilege that is the problem and that it is *our* fear, not our
> opponents'
> that is the obstacle.
>
[snip]
(1) Some of these "hostages" manage to escape: One reads in magazines
stories of individuals who make a zillion dollars a year
for a few years and then *split*. John and Suzie McBurgerflipper
don't have this option.
(2) Some of these "hostages" are having the time of their lives and
have no wish to escape -- indeed, you'd probably kill them if you
made them stop "working"! Also, isn't the excuse "I work so
hard" a great cover for having the time of your life, while
keeping others from trying to take it away from you (Who
would want to cheat some guy out of a life of
"all work and no play")? As Solzhenitsyn(sp?) wrote in The Gulag:
If you find something, don't tell anybody.
If you lose something don't tell anybody.
(3) Given the choice between being a hostage under house
arrest in a well provisioned castle (Watergate? Club
Fed?), or being a free person
in Dickinsean England (or non-union working class America),
I think I'd choose the "prison", especially if it
had at least a dial-up 14.4 internet connection so I could
keep corresponding with all you good FurureWork
folks, et al....
\brad mccormick
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Everyman (woman, child) is a judge of the world.
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