We have a welfare program in the US and have had it for years. My
parents when I first mentioned it as a kid told me to keep my mouth shut
about it. The welfare program I was referring to is the Military
Industrial Complex.
I haven't used recreational drugs since the early 70s. Actually even
stopped using pot about 5 months before starting TM. But I am opposed
to laws against it because it is less harmful than alcohol and an
unreasonable law. The California state government is trying to blame a
pot farm for the Yosemite fire. Well then good reason to legalize it to
prevent such catastrophes.
Promiscuous sex is the result of a sexually repressed society. We were
on our way to solving that and then AIDS showed up.
As for social welfare what are you going to do when there are not enough
jobs for everyone? Dubya told us that we would need to work until we
dropped dead instead of collecting our Social Security (which we paid
for). Doing what? If you are over 50 it is no longer so easy to find a
job. In the tech industry it is really bad. I say stipends for
everyone and those who want more money can figure out ways to make more.
On 09/01/2013 01:55 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Re Bhairitu "When I went to high school "Brave New World" and "1984"
were both assigned and no one ever thought that either book was
selling those dystopian societies as a solution for the future.":
Bertrand Russell reviewing Brave New World asked himself if he
wouldn't actually prefer the dystopia to the contemporary society he
lived in. He thought, yes "at moments I can make myself think this,
but I can never make myself feel it." That's the ambiguity I'm
referring to. Huxley nailed it when he saw that state welfarism,
recreational drug use and promiscuous sex would become the norm. As
the Brave New World option is the one we're steadily moving towards it
clearly does have enough appeal to have triumphed over other people's
ideas of a solution to our society's ills.
