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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Steinberg via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Eventbrite/Zoom addiction!<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>@William FW: <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Royalty has had life coaches since the beginning of history in the form of advisors. But now it's something the hoi polloi have access to. I think a lot of things formerly inaccessible to the common man have followed similar trajectories…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi will, is it cool or what? In our scout troop we have two counselors who lived under communism, socialism and now a form of capitalism. They teach a class in Citizenship in the World, from a position of strength: they know. They lived it in Ukraine, they lived it in Sweden. They chose to raise their son in America.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regarding Ukraine: we were at a birthday party with their friends, nearly all Ukrainian expatriates, speaking in Ukrainian. They drew me into one of their discussions and switched to heavily accented English. They were telling of their experiences during the fall of communism in 1989, oh mercy. The scouts get to learn of that perspective on life. I notice there are plenty of parents sitting in on those classes (I did.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In our fortunate times, we are all royalty.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>