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To: bart13 who wrote (83636)	7/16/2007 4:24:23 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

==irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they Most highs I know are worried about getting high - more cocaine and more private jets and yachts and 3K an hour hookers - I help serve at the salvation army in my city last weekend - I would consider them the low of the low - many homeless, some crazy, some just lazy - but even being homeless or crazy - they have good food to eat, a nice air conditioned place to eat it out of the rain, nice donated clothes to wear - many of them hang out in the city park that has beautiful tax payer funded landscaping and public toilets and water fountains with free wifi that I see several of the homeless surfing - others are at the library again in a nice tax payer funded air conditioned building with lots of movies, dvds, books, magazines, newspapers and tons of computers and free wifi internet - I have lived this lifestyle myself bart and even broke with ZERO dollars a person can eat and entertain themselves pretty well in this society. My grandfather had a rich brother - that rich brother before the depression - he did not have color TV, internet, free wifi, air conditioning, free food at the salvation army, free dvd's, free access to silicon investor or any computer at all - amazing how the most dirt poor homeless broke bumb today has access to education and entertainment that the richest people on the planet didn't even have just 50 years ago - don't be so negative bart - the future is so bright - I gotta wear shades. You cannot disregard the gains technology has brought to even the low. That is being very narrow minded if you do - that is a big problem I have with CHEN - he preaches so much doom then gets on his computers and plays DOOM - haha! It seems hypocritical to me that while his life is being enriched daily by new entertainment and technology and education and medicine he only sees the bad stuff. ==The aim of the Low, when they have an aim -- for it is an My grandpa was low - he just wanted more moonshine and his kelso chickens winning more fights - oh and his hunting dogs to chase more deer. He wouldn't have taken the free internet or free food if it was offered him and he was alive today - he liked killin his own meal - hehe. He did like to watch the old cowboy movies - he might be at the library watching old westerns on dvd if he was alive today. ==But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. Hierarchical society? Didn't china try socialism type stuff and now seem to be doing much better with capitalism? Wealth gap is widening but now I hear negroponte and intel gonna give one laptop per child with FREE OS ubuntu so they all can get on the internet from their mud huts in africa and asia and talk about stocks with you - isn't the future bright? Maybe not - do you really want to talk to 1 billion poor african and asian kids who are about to be unleashed on the internet? When they can get on silicon investor and have access to all the data you do - will they be as low? ==There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. -- 1984, George Orwell I saw a movie with powers boothe about atilla the hun and the fall of rome. Atilla wanted those nice roman baths. He didn't have the engineers to send water all through the kingdom though so he was never to realize the system of baths and aqueducts rome had was he? Anyways I saw that movie 1984 - and that actor that was the underhero in 1984 was the evil dude in some new movie with natalie portman about opression - I have seen so much natalie portman faked porno my ballz hurt - grandpa never got to see all that - neither did his rich brother - neither did the old king of england - amazing a poor bumb like me has more than the richest most powerful man on the planet just 100 years ago - fascinating! I have you talking to me for free, free online monopoly and chess and sudoku, free CNBC streamed over the internet, free mish and russ winter blogs, free MIT webcast courses - god the only thing I lack is MORE LIFE to CONSUME all the free entertainment and education that is in abundance all around my poverty. So I am hoping after bush leaves office scientists will be allowed to research telomere lengths and bring me and you and all the other lows freedom from ageing so we can have more time to read honest money inflation books in your case and scifi computer games in my case. John Hurt plays caligula, at the FREE library I got to see him play a guy that has an ALIEN bust through his gut, I got to see him play a guy that smokes dope in a turkish prison, now I can go to the FREE imdb.com and watch his other movies too - it sucks being poor and low :(