--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sep 24, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Richard M wrote: > > > Yes I agree. It's "only money" after all! > > > > I have enjoyed "The Wire" so much - the price is of no consequence. > > And if everyone worked a flanker and got it gratis, would such > > programs ever get made? "Enlightened self-interest" I'd say. > > Yes. I like contributing $$$ to things I enjoy. I support the arts! :-) > > > (Is there not a parallel here with TMO? Is it better for the Knowledge > > to be free and non-commercial to salve our petty, liberal consciences? > > And only reach a handful of "disciples"...Or better to be mired in and > > tainted by commercial realities, but thereby to reach 000,000's?) > > Honestly I don't seriously entertain anything about TM or the TMO at > all anymore. It has been interesting to watch nature withdraw her > support.
I think I realise that! > Such is impermanence's inevitable rusting of the can of the canned. > As soon as they canned it, it was doomed. > That's pretty. But I don't quite share your extreme cynicism though. (The "rusting" seems to me to be just another nice, poetic way of describing MMY's from-day-one assertion of inevitable knowledge loss).