"Drawing on my first year law class in property, the issue of riparian rights is well settled. The upstream neighbor cannot build a dam without compensating those downstream who are deprived of the flow of water."
Water is one thing, what about other crucial things like dollars? Jobs? Culture? etc. Is there a social covenant that has to do with fairness, equality and the overall efficiency of a society or are we looking at the rise of the governmental structure called aristocracy, strengthened by the fragility of communication networks for all but the ueber wealthy? In the name of dollars they have reduced services, destroyed the public health system, offshored jobs, reduced and even eliminated the availability of museums, performing arts, university education etc. to the poor, destroyed the middle class and have begun a wholesale propaganda selling job to convince the poor and middle classes that these things are gifts of God and not the result of a humane societal covenant between members of a nation. Destroying the National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System as well as Unions makes the aristocratic model complete, especially without the church to confront them as there was in the 15th century. Perhaps you can understand why all of the Jews would have welcomed becoming Nazis had they won the war in spite of the seven million murders. It depends on who's cornered all of the "water" (metaphor) and is now charging the society for the use of it. I was serious yesterday about stopping. I find this all just too depressing. Am I the only one who cares about these things? Is it a cultural thing? Is there something in what the rest of you were born in, drink or eat that makes these things obvious or not important to the rest of you? As for Mike Spence, if we had a serious generic standard in computers then the discussion could be advanced but in a market economy the diversity makes us all at war and no serious discussion is possible due to the aggravation. The limitation of simple text and of prose itself is a basic problem. If you can't supplant this with decent formatting, there is a lot of information that simply cannot be passed on. It's not the buggy and the bamboo. It's the lack of value of simple conversation and the value of seeking answers to problematic situations by a group of Elders. We are being manipulated by the medium and the needs of the people who control that medium. It's not paranoid if it's true. It's just telling what it looks like from here in NYCity. REH
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