Richard Mochelle wrote:
>
> >The day of letting those snotty little welfare cheats take our hard earned
> tax dollars without pretending to work is over.
>
> >Ed Weick
>
> Don't we loathe the freeriders!! Racehorse breeders, stockmarket jockeys,
> golf champions, boardroom junkies, etc. a vast army of snotty little
> welfare cheats (if we read welfare as meaning the immeasurable benefits of
> global cooperation, technological heritage and ecological providence).
>
> Let's not kid ourselves that all moneymakers and taxpayers are 'in truth'
> working, let alone working 'hard'.
[snip]
This reminds me of a little vignette from my child-rearing (which,
by now, you all surely have tired of hearing me elaborate on how
"bad" it was...).
One day, when I was in the back seat of
our 195x Ford middle-of-the-line model 4 door sedan, driving
somewhere, I referred to something as being: "lousy". My
parents in the front seat
immediately instructed me that I was never to use
that word.
Over the years, I increasingly came to appreciate
that the reason my calling some indifferent external object
"lousy" upset them so much was that, "subconsciously", they
all too well knew how easy it would be to change the
referent of that word from that indifferent external object
to their whole form of life: indeed, they may have even
intuited that the "indifferent external object" was
really a stand-in for *them*, already --> that, like the
chicken pecking at the ground, I was calling [whatever
indifferent external object] "lousy" BECAUSE I was not
free to call them and their whole "world": lousy.
\brad mccormick
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