Re: brothers and sisters must register and send this article to users

On Jul 10, 10:25�pm, Frank Olson >
That will never happen. �I don't live in the kind of neighbourhood where
anyone "big and black" wanders around "doped up on crack". �Like Jim
said... �If the risk is too great, don't go there. �We're miles from the
nearest SkyTrain station (where those kinds of folks seem to
congregate), we have an excellent Neighbourhood Watch, and the best
security system around...


Sounds like an Eloi to me. Acts like an Eloi ...... must be an .....

Don't listen to the sirens Frank ..... Don't listen to the sirens!

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The following is from Wikipedia, kinda spooky that it's got you and
your kind pegged so accurately...... huh?

In Neal Stephenson's essay on modern culture vis-�-vis OS development,
In the beginning there was the Command Line, he demonstrates
similarities between the future in The Time Machine and contemporary
American culture. He claims that most Americans have been exposed to a
"corporate monoculture" which renders them "unwilling to make
judgments and incapable of taking stands." Anyone who remains outside
of this "culture" is left with powerful tools to deal with the world,
and it is they, rather than the neutered Eloi, that run things.

The assumption seems to be that the Eloi will manage to fill their
heads with garbage one way or the other, so American culture exists to
ensure that it is harmless garbage rather than the dangerous types
that lead to disruptions, violence, wars, and inquisitions.

To quote Stephenson directly:

"But in our world it's the other way round. The Morlocks are in the
minority, and they are running the show, because they understand how
everything works. The much more numerous Eloi learn everything they
know from being steeped from birth in electronic media directed and
controlled by book-reading Morlocks. So many ignorant people could be
dangerous if they got pointed in the wrong direction, and so we've
evolved a popular culture that is (a) almost unbelievably infectious
and (b) neuters every person who gets infected by it, by rendering
them unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands."

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The problem we face now, today, is that the Eloi (so many ignorant
people) actually HAVE been pointed in the wrong direction and are in
control, and the Morlocks have lost their edge. It's going to take a
serious magnatude of reduction in the population of the "Eloi" to set
the balance of power straight again. So you and yours should keep on
truckin in the direction you're traveling. The meek will inherit the
earth, alright, but it's gonna be a little scorched when you get it.
When that happens, you can go right ahead and sing a couple of
choruses of Amazing Grace and that oughta fix everything.

While you're singing, history repeating it's self, the "Morlocks" will
take control again.
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