[ExI] future of slavery

spike spike at rainier66.com
Tue Apr 9 16:43:15 UTC 2013



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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty
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Subject: Re: [ExI] future of slavery

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:11 AM, spike <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>>... Now that's a prolist comment.  Some proles know better than to follow 
> their herd according to their programming, but choose that path, 
> knowing they choose it because of their programming.  Prolism is a 
> failure to recognize that our world is full of those who choose this 
> life.  It overlooks the fact that proles and animals are free.  
> Furthermore, never have we had it as good as we do now.  So it is 
> possible to simultaneously have a prole life and be pro-choice.

>...Was that paragraph just to setup the homophonic pun?  If yes: I approve.
:) _______________________________________________

Homophonic?  No way!  I am not homophonic!  Some of my best friends are
homophones!  Examples, movie director Spike Lee, Spike Fonzarelli (Fonzie's
cousin from Happy Days), Spike the dog from Tom and Jerry, Spike the vampire
who was Buffy's ambiguous boyfriend, homophones all.

Ja, I did it to set up the homophonic pun.  You guys know me by now.  {8^D
There is a point to it however: the term prole implies lower-middle class
and lower class people.  Never in the history of mankind have the lower
classes had it so good.  Sure the gap between rich and poor grows every
year, but just look at all the stuff which has become free.  Really all the
stuff I really care about is information, and so much of that has become
free that I seldom buy much; don't really need to.  

In modern times, proles have truly been set free.  If we don't care what
kind of home we live in and we are not too picky about what we eat or how
much, an American can live his (if her, it's even easier) entire life
without ever taking up a 9 to 5.  If you carry your wealth in your head, it
is possible to read and study all you want, mine the thin gruel of the
internet all your waking hours.  I can think of no period of history which
has so enabled idlers to have a good life.

spike




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