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

[Al Brooks]

Agreed. And I know all the twists. Still, if I were a
libertarian I wouldn't spend a second hunched over a
keyboard, I'd be out living a life as I define a real
life.
 IMO freedom is a necessary fiction, like religion it
smooths out the rough edges.
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BTW my attorney got so drunk tonight he just stole his
own wallet.




> Brian Lee <brian_a_lee at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
> >
> >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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