[MD] freedom is for the rich

[Ham Priday]

Micah, Steve, Case --


For what it's worth, I second Micah's last two posts.


> Steve H,
> 
> By what right are people owed a living? 
> Who supplies that living?  Is the supply of that living forced?
> 
> Gav is mistaken about capitalism, it is about 
> individual freedom - anything less is a form of slavery -
> like your proposal.  Capitalism depends on individual freedom
> to trade in the marketplace, nothing more or less. It's quite
> simple. Are you against your individual freedom? 
> Or just others?

> Case,
>
> The motorcycle in Zen was what kept Pirsig sane during
> his journey into the high country of the mind. We all have
> something to anchor us to sanity and his was the maintenance.
> Plus it provided a "breather" for the reader. The book was
> song form, with the philosophy as the verse and the maintenance
> as the chorus. The statement, "We have in our minds a very
> real a priori motorcycle whose existence we have no reason to
> doubt, whose reality can be confirmed anytime", confirms that
> the maintenance is his touchstone to sanity. 
> Complete doubt is insanity.
>
Micah

Essentially yours,
Ham