From: bchan@tworaven.lonestar.org (bchan)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: People Are Nice
Date: 8 Nov 92 08:07:07 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Two Ravens BBS

I don't care what anybody says. People are basically GOOD. How'd'ye like 
THEM apples, Ayn Rand groupies? That's right, I'm sitting here claiming 
that, left to themselves and well-fed, most humans are an amiable enough 
lot, content to do their thing and enjoy life in peace and happiness.
 
Why am I saying all this? Well, hallelujah, just because I still CAN. 
after twelve years of ketchup as a vegetable, "upscale" everything, 
arrogance-as-virtue, social-Darwinist claptrap, and all the general 
coldhearted inhumanity of the Golden Years of Conservatism, it's my turn 
to CROW at last and prove that YES, Virginia, a few of us pinko 
bleeding-hearts survived the No Decade with our spirits intact. Some us 
us actually still believe in communal life (that's as in "community", you 
rugged individualists), free expression, leisure, peace, and all that 
other "punk-rock" stuff that became oh-so-unfashionable in the last 
twelve long years. I look around at the wreckage of a country that is all 
that remains after twelve long years of having the foxes run the 
chicken-coop and I'm happy. They've destroyed everything that was America 
in their frantic attempt to "maximize profit."
 
Well, I say SCREW PROFIT and SCREW WEALTH as well. I'm poor and I like 
it, at least in terms of material wealth. My attitude: we were put here 
to enjoy life...and that means NOT WORKING, or at least not working at a 
"job". People should rise up in anger at the thought of toiling away all 
day for the privelege of eating regularly.
 
"Oh, but there ain't no free lunch", they'll tell you. Bullshit. That's a 
quote from a bad science-fiction novel, not a statement of economic fact. 
The fact is that enough exists RIGHT THIS MINUTE for everyone on Earth to 
enjoy a clean, fun, healthy, and affluent lifestyle, and work less or 
even not at all to get it. A fruit tree is a perfect example of a free 
lunch machine: give it free sunlight, your bad breath, and the waste from 
your body, and it will go on producing FREE LUNCHES for you indefinitely. 
Just remember to spit out and bury the seeds and you've got free lunch 
forever. We can build machines that will be our "fruit trees" and produce 
food, housing, clothing, and toys so cheaply it will easier to just GIVE 
them away than to sell them.
 
FREE LUNCH EXISTS. SIT DOWN AND EAT IT.
 
The world is created by us, by our dreams and efforts. It need not be a 
dreary cycle of 9-to-5 madness in exchange for a lifetime of worry. We 
can make the world into Hell or Heaven if we choose to. I'm betting on 
heaven. 
 
We must destroy the false god of Wealth before we can raise the human 
spirit to its rightful place above the altar. We can do that by 
guaranteeing every man, woman, and child a decent living as their fair 
share of our planet, without forcing them to sell themselves as wage 
slaves, replaceable "human resources", grist for some 
wolf-in-human-clothing's profit mill. EVERYONE DESERVES A GOOD LIFE JUST 
BECAUSE THEY ARE HUMAN. PERIOD.
 
Clear enough? I'm ready. Let's join together and figure it out.
 
"The world owes you a living, and every day should be payday."
 
                                       --J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
 
B-chan


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