02-22-2010, 12:03 AM
Harold Wrote:Dear Danno, I suspect, in your new society, your place would be that of a "social manager/engineer," with all the "benefits" that "essential" position would require for a man of your visionary leadership, at the top of utopia's pyramid. Ok, you got me; I fell for it; Ha Ha; You are just having fun, right?Actually I wouldn't fit in such a society very well. I don't think any of us would in the transition period. I'm a product of this society. From the very beginning I have been bombarded and indocrinated with materialism and how to be a good drone... how to be an insatiable consumer, how to appreciate my fairly fortunate position in a very stratfied society. In other words, I like stuff, even status symbol stuff, because I have been conditioned to like stuff and I will most likely always like stuff because of that relentless conditioning. It is the future inhabitants of this new society who would mainly be the beneficiaries of our decision to escape this crap.