[MD] Unreality of Equality

[David Harding]

Heather Perella wrote:
> Everybody,
> 
> One more point that attaches to my last posting, which
> is...
> 
> Can't I just go fishing and be with my family more
> than I have to increasingly get $ to pay bills and buy
> more and more stuff so this culture can survive?  Just
> think if a lot of people in this culture quit buying
> TV's, Radios, MP3 players, make-up, knick-knacks,
> cars, didn't go to the hospital, etc...  I am not
> saying we need to do any of this.  My point is if we
> stopped buying a lot of stuff on a mass scale this
> culture would collapse.  This is a consuming culture
> in more than one way. 
>      Thus, our social, family, and quality time with
> this universe is eaten away more and more by our
> thinking that buying anything, no matter what it is on
> the shelf in the store is the only Way to keeping a
> culture alive.  Now not only is freedom and
> consumerism meaning the same from my perspective, but
> culture is also meaning the same as these two concepts
> as well, at least in this culture.  Let the intellect
> step in.  Let's be able to think and have the cultural
> space to do something about this.  As I have
> repeatedly said here, Wisdom is knowledge put in
> action.  Let us have Wisdom.
> 
>      It would be nice to be able to sit by the fire
> and discuss, motivate, and leave to do something about
> this as I remember when I was younger living in these
> here parts.  We used to sit around a fire and talk
> about stuff.  Anything, sometimes it was about what
> somebody was doing that was not healthy.  We left the
> fire, and each on our own would try to discuss with
> this friend of ours how what he was doing was not
> healthy.  Eventually this friend would do something
> about his life and came to sit by the fire with us to
> maybe just talk about where we wanted to hunt, fish,
> we philosophized, or just had enough time to sit by
> that fire.  I still at times sit by a fire, but
> increasingly the path in my life deverts me from where
> that fire is.  The only people by the fire have been
> my wife and I recently.  I could go and sit by that
> fire more often I admit, but I don't have the choice
> to not increasingly have to be working and buying.  I
> am glad that after I bought this computer, began
> paying the bill for the internet, paid the bill for
> electricity, bill for rent, not to mention all the
> other bills and needs to get to work to buy all this
> stuff so I can at least have this free discussion
> within this free forum on the MOQ.  I think I made my
> point, I'm done for now.
> 
> Thanks everybody,
> SA
> 

And a fine one at that.

Thanks SA