congrats! you must be doing something good :-)) we live on a prison planet: no matter how wealthy, corrupt or otherwise, we can't get off it to escape to someplace else. which makes us all equal (sort of).
Thank you, Mary-Lou. I hit another one out'a the park two days ago.
"We live on a prison planet: no matter how wealthy, corrupt or otherwise, we can't get off it to escape to someplace else."
The planet is not a prison. The prison is a human construct. This construct has to be exposed and dismantled. Humans are the only mamals that treat each other this way.
very true. our world is what it is and happiness comes from within, not from one's surroundings. although I'm not sure what I'd do when I'd feel constrained, because I don't perceive the world as a finite entity. but then, I'm not a control-freak. depending on one's outlook I guess the world is far too big (for our brain) to comprehend. imagine walking the length of any continent, that would easily erase the idea of a 'prison planet'.
"Imagine walking the length of any continent, that would easily erase the idea of a 'prison planet'."
That was exactly what I meant. The prison is the fact that we incrementally over several generations have been "the boiling frog". The powers that shouldn't be have been very creative in finding more and more ways to gradually take more and more of the wealth that WE create. We are even way past the point of them being able to use that wealth against us.
Their biggest problem was pointed out by then USSoS Killary: "We are loosing the information war." This satement initiated Silicon Vally getting into the war. They have won many battles since then, but they will ultimately loose the war. We are 8 billion. They number in the thousands. Twenty at most.
That you immediately used your first post after getting a (well-deserved!) bump in subscriptions to write about the Gazan catastrophe, speaks to your integrity. The world needs more writers like you... and readers like the ones reading this comment. Thank you.
congrats! you must be doing something good :-)) we live on a prison planet: no matter how wealthy, corrupt or otherwise, we can't get off it to escape to someplace else. which makes us all equal (sort of).
Thank you, Mary-Lou. I hit another one out'a the park two days ago.
"We live on a prison planet: no matter how wealthy, corrupt or otherwise, we can't get off it to escape to someplace else."
The planet is not a prison. The prison is a human construct. This construct has to be exposed and dismantled. Humans are the only mamals that treat each other this way.
very true. our world is what it is and happiness comes from within, not from one's surroundings. although I'm not sure what I'd do when I'd feel constrained, because I don't perceive the world as a finite entity. but then, I'm not a control-freak. depending on one's outlook I guess the world is far too big (for our brain) to comprehend. imagine walking the length of any continent, that would easily erase the idea of a 'prison planet'.
"Imagine walking the length of any continent, that would easily erase the idea of a 'prison planet'."
That was exactly what I meant. The prison is the fact that we incrementally over several generations have been "the boiling frog". The powers that shouldn't be have been very creative in finding more and more ways to gradually take more and more of the wealth that WE create. We are even way past the point of them being able to use that wealth against us.
Their biggest problem was pointed out by then USSoS Killary: "We are loosing the information war." This satement initiated Silicon Vally getting into the war. They have won many battles since then, but they will ultimately loose the war. We are 8 billion. They number in the thousands. Twenty at most.
That you immediately used your first post after getting a (well-deserved!) bump in subscriptions to write about the Gazan catastrophe, speaks to your integrity. The world needs more writers like you... and readers like the ones reading this comment. Thank you.
Wow! Thank you, Anna. This comment is even better than your first.