From: Joe (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 18:45:28 GMT
On 4 Dec 2003 8:31 AM Platt writes:
Platt:
The necessities of life for humans (unlike for animals) must be
produced by thought and work. I guess we all wish that such a blunt
fact were not so, that instead we could live in a land of the Big Rock
Candy Mountain, "where the cops have wooden legs, the bulldogs all have
rubber teeth, and the hens lay soft-boiled eggs." So long as thought
and work are necessary to produce the necessities of life, an economic
system that rewards creators, inventors and producers makes sense. Such
is the system championed by the U.S. with the result that the people in
the country enjoy the highest standard of living in the world. When
producers are penalized by non-productive governments through excessive
regulation, taxation and redistribution of income, the result can be
seen in socialist countries where static patterns and fights between
competing groups for government handouts and privileges prevail. (A
well-tested technique for garnering special government treatment is to
identify yourself with a "'victim" group.)
Hi Platt, Mark and All,
joe: your diatribe, Platt, strikes a chord in me. Down through the ages
different places on the surface of the planet have become more historically
significant. E.G., Babylon, Athens, Rome, etc. Now the U.S. is popular. I
guess I would say that DQ causes the notoriety. I know of no one who wants
to squander DQ! Usually these hot places collect a lot of weapons and
warriors. War squanders DQ. Why?
Platt quoting Poe:
"An immortal instinct, deep within the human spirit, is a sense of the
beautiful. This is what administers our delight in life. But there is
still something in the distance which we know of, but are unable to
fully attain."
joe: i would paraphrase the rest of the quote as an immortal instinct for
"payment" or "food". The organic eats the inorganic, the social eats the
organic, the intellectual eats the social, self-awareness (consciousness)
eats the intellectual. What does the inorganic eat? How about sunlight! I
want to pay for quality, but how? With my life. I am food! I don't think
I can miss paying the piper. Who are the "artists lining up to suck off the
government nipple?" The individuals who feel that they produce by their
thought and work the necessities of life? A tax structure can decide! The
worm is turning!
Joe
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