Negative Liberties & RWE

[Joseph Tracy]

The incredible String Band
On Dec 6, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h2R86hZGKo
> 
> The great man, the great man, historians his memory
> Artists his senses, thinkers his brain
> Labourers his growth
> Explorers his limbs
> And soldiers his death each second
> And mystics his rebirth each second
> Businessmen his nervous system
> No-hustle men his stomach
> Astrologers his balance
> Lovers his loins
> His skin it is all patchy
> But soon will reach one glowing hue
> God is his soul
> Infinity his goal
> The mystery his source
> And civilisation he leaves behind
> Opinions are his fingernails
> 
> Maya Maya
> All this world is but a play
> Be thou the joyful player
> 
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> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:12 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is
>> One Man,--present to all particular men only partially, or through one
>> faculty; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole
>> man. Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is
>> all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and
>> soldier. In the divided or social state, these functions are parceled
>> out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint
>> work, whilst each other performs his. The fable implies, that the
>> individual, to possess himself, must sometimes return from his own
>> labor to embrace all the other laborers. But unfortunately, this
>> original unit, this fountain of power, has been so distributed to
>> multitudes, has been so minutely subdivided and peddled out, that it
>> is spilled into drops, and cannot be gathered. The state of society is
>> one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and
>> strut about so many walking monsters,--a good finger, a neck, a
>> stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
>> 
>> Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things.