[extropy-chat] we're more of a con to ourselves than Enron

[Brian Lee]

One of the sad bits about freedom is that when we have it we are free to 
waste it dressing like teenyboppers or watching brain-wasting tv or typing 
away to cyberspace. That's how you know you are free, when you are free to 
"waste" it.

BAL

>From: Al Brooks <kerry_prez at yahoo.com>
>To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
>Subject: [extropy-chat] we're more of a con to ourselves than Enron
>Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:02:07 -0800 (PST)
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>If freedom is so uber-important then why do we waste time hunched in front 
>of a keyboard, tapping words into cyperspace that have no value in the sum 
>total of things? Why do we spend so much time griping about how we don't 
>have enough freedom when the time could be used to actually BE free? So 
>many are waiting for their ship to come in, and when they reach retirement 
>age they are old but "now I've got it made in the shade-- I'm in my Golden 
>Years, with metamucil to push some of the dross out". Or a 60 year old baby 
>boomer lady who dresses in teenage clothes and thinks, "I'm so young and 
>pretty", when she's got jowls hanging off her face.
>So, uh,  maybe we don't hold freedom as dear as we think we do?
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