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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (86598)	8/27/2000 1:43:42 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 108807

Once you take a job where you are relying on their money to "survive" you expose yourself to this collective power of "WE" which doesn't really appreciate and understand the individual power of "ME". I don't know what your job is but mine is essentially a service job. People pay me to solve their problems. How I do this is secondary. How long it takes me is irrelevant. As a service job, I trade my life units for wampum. This is for my convenience so I don't have to go out and grow vegetables. I take my intellectual resources and convert them to basic needs. The net balance of trade is favorable for me and my employers. It is not a zero-sum game and all parties benefit from the relationship. I say there's a higher plane that will trump what we regard as government "service." And Washington will be a museum before this massive service trend reaches it's peak. And all those people invested in that archaic system are going to put up a huge fight. They will try to subvert and hijack the information revolution at every point. You can see it now with all the reactionary groups who see erosion of "traditional values" lurking around every corner. Skirt lengths went up 100 years ago not as a result of immodesty but as a practical solution to the problem of horse wastes that were clogging the streets. Automobiles were actually a solution to a particularly bad pollution problem: the urbanization of cities with 19th century technological limitations.