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[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:11 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Easy communication (e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, the Yoyodyne system) allows for vapid thoughts, quick and superficial expression.  If you're going to the trouble to buy stamps and envelopes, and if it will take days, weeks or even months for the message to get through, there's a lot of incentive to write something meaningful.  You have to wonder what the content of the average W.A.S.T.E. letter is like. Does a clandestine postal system call for subversive messages?  Or will simple greetings, updates on Aunt Sadie's arthritis, etc. do?
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> Laura

Very true.

When things are cheap people will use too much of them.

Same applies for self publication on internet.

No one would pay his own money to get a lot of the stuff in print.

The principle applies to health care too unfortunately.

When there is no connect between paying and using people will use too much.

I'm still for universal government run health insurance.

P
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> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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>>Suddenly, never noticed (by me) before, this exchange seems
>>to portray the necessity of 'small talk", that 'social cement'
>>[as one sociologist called it] to keep the(a) community going.
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>>> What a W.A.S.T.E., what a W.A.S.T.E. . . .
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>>>     "It's the principle," Fallopian agreed,
>>> sounding defensive. "To
>>>     keep it up to some kind of a reasonable
>>> volume, each member
>>>     has to send at least one letter a week
>>> through the Yoyodyne
>>>     system. If you don't, you get fined." He
>>> opened his letter and
>>>     showed Oedipa and Metzger.
>>>
>>>     Dear Mike, it said, how are you? Just
>>> thought I'd drop you a
>>>     note. How's your book coming? Guess
>>> that's all for now. See
>>>     you at The Scope.
>>>
>>>     "That's how it is," Fallopian confessed
>>> bitterly, "most of the time."
>>>
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