[ExI] future of slavery

[Mike Dougherty]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:43 PM, spike <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> 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.

You forgot this apt Spike:
http://www.hahnfamilies.com/Fun%20Stuff/Comics/Peanuts/Pages/spike.htm

> 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.

I guess it depends on your definitions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakir  (though I'd rather not go back to
4th century BCE)