This is an aboration of our times . .

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Post #45,674

by Andrew Grygus

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7/15/02 3:31:58 PM

This is an aboration of our times . .

. . due to the current extreme cost and legal reprecussions of offspring to the well-to-do. Historically (and prehistorically) the powerful have had more offspring, and their offspring have had a far better chance of survival - thus the evolutionary factors.

Our current society has bent and violated the natural order and natural limitations to the extent factors such as sex and power have, of necessity, been turned to uses not intended by nature.

Poor and uneducated societies continue in the natural ways in a world where those ways no longer serve, and if they don't learn to deal with the new world order, they face massive die-offs, sooner or later.

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Post #45,710

7/15/02 8:05:45 PM

Except.. re that last -

..they will not go quietly into that dark good night.

Techno, ubiquitous: guarantees that those iron gates around the little islands of Wealth: will be as porous as is needed. Or as Omniscient Tom Lehrer so wisely put it ~ a half-century ago:

[link|http://bridge.anglia.ac.uk/~systimk/Humour/Lehrer/An-Evening.Html#GoTogether| We Will All Go Together ][When We Go]

When you attend a funeral,
It is sad to think that sooner o'
Later those you love will do the same for you.
And you may have thought it tragic,
Not to mention other adjec-
Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do.
(But don't you worry.)

No more ashes, no more sackcloth,
And an arm band made of black cloth
Will some day nevermore adorn a sleeve.
For if the bomb that drops on you
Gets your friends and neighbors too,
There'll be nobody left behind to grieve.

And we will all go together when we go. [Fanfare!]
What a comforting fact that is to know.
Universal bereavement,
An inspiring achievement,
Yes, we will all go together when we go.

... ... ... sung to a rilly Catchy tune - with bugles and all..

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Call it greed then - (orion) - July 14, 2002, 06:53:06 PM EDT

Its easy for some people - (orion) - (1) - July 15, 2002, 02:46:23 PM EDT

Chose your parents carefully. - (Andrew Grygus) - July 15, 2002, 03:18:39 PM EDT

Money may lead to more attempts at procreation... - (ChrisR) - (2) - July 15, 2002, 03:18:06 PM EDT

This is an aboration of our times . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - July 15, 2002, 03:31:58 PM EDT

Except.. re that last - - (Ashton) - July 15, 2002, 08:05:45 PM EDT

That's the part people forget - (drewk) - July 16, 2002, 09:19:34 AM EDT

So what? - (mhuber) - (3) - July 15, 2002, 01:06:05 PM EDT

There is the question of... - (ChrisR) - (2) - July 15, 2002, 01:46:00 PM EDT

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