> Man was meant to till the fields himself. Says so right here on this
>here slab of stone chiseled by the master chiseler of that disreputable town
>of villains!
>
> Just look at how far we have fallen! We have even more disreputable
>professions than chiseling. We even have people who don't even labor to
>write the words, but orchestrate them on glowing flasks of void! And then
>there are these crazies who create incantations upon those flasks,
>incantations that are carried out by electron demons that take a portion
>of a person's life work and assign them to tallies of value used by a
>faceless burro-cratic government run by a...
>
> See what happens when you get folks together in villages, towns, and
>cities? Imagine, people earning their daily bread writing ephemeral
>phosphorescent words on flasks of void! What is the world coming to!!!
Javilk, you crack me up :>)
Reminds me of an excellent book I read recently, "Guns, Germs, and Steel".
By a UCLA professor. Explains clearly and succinctly why some civilizations
rose to dominate others, all because of biogeography. Nothing to do with
superior intelligence.
Which relates back to why villages are a good thing. 15,000 years ago, when
all humans were hunter-gatherers in small bands, they spent just about all
their time looking for food. They were on the move, so they couldn't
produce anything of any mass, to much bother to carry it around. And when
it's all you can do to get through the day with enough calories to stay
alive, you don't have time left to do anything else.
With the domestication of certain wild grains in the Mesopotamia (now Iraq)
and western China, all that changed, leading to villages and people with
time on their hands and then down the centuries to where we are today: only
a small fraction of the population of the developed world spends time
raising food, everyone else does wild and crazy stuff like staring at
glowing flasks of void and muttering incantations to the electron demons...
Barry <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web Design & Development - Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com>
In a world without walls or fences, what use do we have for windows or gates?
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