For those who worry so much about what need is most important, I would suggest fasting. A fourteen day water fast can do wonders for getting over the fear of hunger and starvation. But it takes a lot more money to get over the depression raised from a lack of meaning in one's life. Therapy is expensive.
REH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "G. Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Workloads :: From each to each for each.... > Brad, > > Of cause it is better to be enslaved into poverty - through no fault of > your own. > > So you like to be told. > > Send me your next salary check. > > Can't resist this. > > Harry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Brad wrote: > > >Harry Pollard wrote: > >>Brad, > >>How perceptive of you to realize the military cannot be run as a free market. > >>In the free market the individual citizen decides what he wants to do. In > >>the military, the citizen does what he is told. > > > >Well, yes, I do like being told: > > > > Take what you want. Eat what you take. > > > >I admit to not wanting to be free to be impoverished > >due to no fault of my own. Etc. > > > >But I'm not going to argue, because I think > >we are talking past each other. > > > > No person can see another in the darkness. > > (--Hermann Broch, _The Slepwalkers_) > > > >I am free for so many things I don't want, and I > >am told what to do, and constrained > >in so many ways that I'd rather > >take my own initiative. > > > >And, as previously said, > >I -- like some others -- seek not freedom of > >enterprise, but freedom from enterprise. Maybe I'd > >work harder if I could earn enough to make "my number" > >(ref. is to Wall Street traders' ultimate career > >objective: to get enough to get out) before > >I'd be too old to enjoy it. > > > >Another US$10,000 PA wouldn't help, or even > >20. But another 10 *less* would hurt! > > > >\brad mccormick > > > >>Obviously, you prefer the second - the highly visible hand. > >>Harry > >>--------------------------------------- > >>Brad wrote: > >> > >>>I will never tire of hypothesizing (until proven wrong) that > >>>rich families and the social circles of the aristoi > >>>(you know, the Wiliam F Buckleyocracy...) -- in the > >>>way they treat each other as opposed to the > >>>way they treat their upderlings --, > >>>are not capitalistic but communistic (or simply > >>>gracious, which is, for me, the constructive > >>>epitome of communism). > >>> > >>>But, back to earth, I will also never tire > >>>of repeating a sign my father said was in the mess hall > >>>when he was in the Air Corps in WWII (we note that > >>>the military is not run as a free market, probably > >>>because it's too important to leave to the > >>>whims of the invisible fickle finger of fate...). > >>> > >>> > >>> Take what you want, eat what you take. > >>> > >>> > >>>This sounds very good to me. It's also the > >>>kind of ecology-mindedness that it seems to me > >>>is not deprivative. > >>> > >>>\brad mccormick > > > > **************************************************** > Harry Pollard > Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles > Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 > Tel: (818) 352-4141 -- Fax: (818) 353-2242 > http://home.comcast.net/~haledward > **************************************************** > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003 > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
