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To: LindyBill who wrote (128044)7/28/2005 11:36:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (3) of 793750
 
To be, or not to be. That is the question. <We all have an internal value system, but we don't normally articulate it. It is based on the reality of "life or death." When faced with this choice, we will chose life. Therefore, any code of values will choose life as the ultimate value. As Ayn Rand puts it in Atlas Shrugged,

"It is only the concept of 'life' that makes the concept of 'value' possible.>

The internal value system is what we see in cats. Herding cats doesn't work.

The external value system is what we see in sheep. They flock and stampede, enforced by the teeth of the wolves.

People are half cat, half sheep. Some are more cat than sheep. Some more sheep.

Fleecing cats is hard work. Fleecing sheep is much easier and more profitable.

Rulers and authoritarians in general like sheep, not cats.

Watch people in airports and you will see sheep. With wolves lurking around them. I can see how Adolf and mates managed to keep the gas chambers stoked. Herding cats into those would have been a nightmare.

We need cat values. Internal values. Not sheep values.

But herd values are great for co-operative activity such as building Globalstar [even though the bosses ran it into the ground it was and still is a great thing]. Getting people to act like an intelligent herd of wolves is pretty powerful and successful.

To be a cat, or a sheep, or a wolf? That is the question.

Perhaps a human would be best.

Mqurice
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