Now, Voyageur

Henry M gravity at nicom.com
Fri Nov 15 05:47:13 CST 1996


Excellent point Craig, but not an Amerikan (excuse sixties spelling) 
interpretation (but you knew that already). There is no exploited 
American working class; only individual failures fighting against 
each other. Doesn't take a village to do that.

Reminds me of how the irony of the phrase "pull onself up by the 
bootstraps" is lost on the majority of the people who use the phrase. 
The next time that you have your boots on (no, not your boots, Craig -
it's just ranting time) try to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. 
No, not the boots. No, not your feet/legs. Nope! If youneed to be 
pulled up, better wait for the unseen hand or a few neighbors from 
the "village." (a-and how about The Village in The Prisoner? Just 
wait right there. Deputy Dan...)

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On 15 Nov 96 at 9:34, Craig Clark wrote:

> David Casseres writes:
> 
> > And today, the vast majority of us are employees of capitalist
> > corporate enterprises, just like those trappers.  Contrary to the
> > propaganda we are all raised on, that *doesn't* make us a nation
> > of capitalists.  It makes us (duh!) a nation of employees!
> 
> ...or a nation of exploited members of the working class...
> 
> 
> 
> Craig Clark
> 
> "Living inside the system is like driving across
> the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
> on suicide."
>    - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
> 

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