?Is this the 'Star Trek' social ideal or a one way trip to social system devoid
of most/if not all competitive-creative impulse/spirit.
? Or is the premise that competivetive drive equates to 'creativity' merely a
psuedo-capitalistic allusion projected-falsely to emulate a 'Matix/Equilibrium'
culture that keeps the rats dutifully sprinting along on the ole'
hampster-wheel-big-brother-system from cradel to grave?
BOTTOM LINE: ?Will 'too well fed' hampsters(aka homo sapiens
rodentensis-guineapigensis) continue to run-the-wheel-like-OCD-video-gamers in
there typically inanely zombiesque fashion? &/or willl the next 'Reich' be the
inevitable(again & cyclically inevitable) sequentially-spontaneous
motivational-imperitive to rise & replace the Obese-Lazy-Entertainment-Addicted
and render them into SOYLENT GREEN? Now that would be the ultimate
hampster-mill irony for the fat-lame-lazy-decadent-bored outcome of cradle to
grave government subsidized system of FATTENING FOR THE SLAUGHTER. And we
would largely deserve it. . . . sad to say////Maori Crassmus and to all a Guten
Nacht.
Progressive evolution depends on 'challenge meeting creatively & thusly
successfully' & the subsequent progressive-evolutionary-creative change that
this healthy process tends to engender. And point spread on the video game
while one's gut and ass spreads in the armchair is the antithesis of this.
What other specie would consider it 'progressive' to 'interact' with such a
degraded race; but rather in disgust would be inspired to disappropriate this
magnificent planet from us and put it to 'better' use from their perspective.
And this because 'they' had enough DRIVE & AMBITION to develope technologies to
navigate the stars while we could not even be moved to permanently colonized
even our own moon, much less solarsystem while we squabble-deludedly, stuff our
pie-holes, fart, belch and masturbate our newest-version video-X-boxs etc. and
fancy our bloated selves as the 'Masters of the Universe.'
> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 08:30:51 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT: Virtual Currency - The future of currency in the 21st
> century and beyond.
>
> It sounds like computerized food stamps that never run out and are
> available to the entire population, regardless of income.
>
> One thing that I don't like about it is that it sounds like cc
> would be a large bureaucracy. For example, they might declare that
> plasma tvs with screens less than 21 inches are necessities of life
> (a citizen must be kept up to date with what is going on, etc), but
> that larger ones are luxuries.
>
> The classification would change as technology advanced, so that
> when flat-screen tvs took over, any size plasma tv would be seen
> as a necessity. This sort of thing would occur all the time, it
> seems to me, needing an army of bureaucrats to keep track of it
> all.
>
> Under this plan, the credits for necessities would be available to
> everybody, not just poor people. So a family with an average
> income, large enough to live in reasonable comfort, who, under
> today's system, would pay for their basic food, would no longer pay
> for it, meaning the government would. When you add in the other
> things you mention: 'health, basic health services, basic public
> transportation, basic shelter', it sounds like much, most? of the
> economy would be socialistic.
>
> Socialistic economies seem to work, unless they get too 'social';
> not sure how social this plan would end up being.
>
