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Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
reply to post by davespanners
all those things that you give as being invented by society are wrong, metallurgy was found by humans in the copper age about 7000BC looking for better farming/protection tools and spreed and reconfigured, and new uses and ways were found when humans gathered in huge groups ie metropolises, glass the same thing happened, on Google links they say that it has been around since the bronze age 3000 BC
Originally posted by VictorVonDoom
reply to post by 12voltz
And now for the rest of the story …
The tourist tells his story to his Facebook friends upon his return. The CIA operative assigned to monitor the tourist reads the story, does a little research, and determines that the waters of the coastal village are indeed “underutilized”. He sells the information to MegaloCorp for a tidy sum.
MegaloCorp sends a fleet of fishing vessels to the coast, and gets a court order to stop all private fishing to “preserve the environment”. The fisherman and his village try to farm the land for food, but the sandy soil isn’t really compatible with Monsanto crops. Malnutrition and sickness overtake the village.
The tourist returns a year later and sees the devastation. He is able to buy some prime oceanfront property from the desperate fisherman and some of his neighbors. He sells the land for a huge profit and retires, spending his days fishing and enjoying his family’s company. The developer who bought the land builds a hotel and casino and makes a fortune. MegaloCorp makes billions selling fish patties to McDonald’s, which far outstripped the millions they had to pay when they were caught dumping toxic waste into the coastal waters. The fisherman dies from eating too many McFish sandwiches.
The moral of the story, if you’ve got a good thing going, there’s always some greedy SOB out there who wants to take it from you.
Originally posted by GhostLancer
This thread is a PLOT to make people, who might otherwise stand up for FREEEEEEDOM, sit back and just "enjoy siestas" while the secret government washes away layers of the Constitution.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Originally posted by The Endtime Warrior
reply to post by 12voltz
its sad you have to clarify yourself, 12voltz. I dont understand how anyone made it this far in life without able to understand the difference between a metaphor, and a literal piece of information.
Originally posted by davespanners
I see one major problem with this lifestyle however and that is one of technological advancement. For large scale project of any sort to work there has to be people that specialize in certain disciplines and spend their whole time just working in that area.
I guess some people will say, well we are better off without all of this technology, but imagine a society that just spent their whole time fishing and sleeping, they never invented metallurgy, they never invented glass, and so they never invented the telescope and thus they were completely surprised when a large meteor hurtled down from the cosmos and smashed their idyllic village into a thousand pieces.
Originally posted by MMPI2
Originally posted by rufusdrak
reply to post by 12voltz
Wow that was frickin' awesome haha...very vividly exposes the hollow and shallow western capitalist mentality.
Yeah, that horrible western capitalism that brought us the most advanced medical care and standard of living in human history, not to mention the ability for us to pontificate and whine endlessly about how bad our lives are to people across the earth at the speed of light. Yuck.
Bad capitalism! Bad western culture...spank spank spank.
Originally posted by rufusdrak
reply to post by 12voltz
Wow that was frickin' awesome haha...very vividly exposes the hollow and shallow western capitalist mentality.
Originally posted by davespanners
Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
reply to post by davespanners
all those things that you give as being invented by society are wrong, metallurgy was found by humans in the copper age about 7000BC looking for better farming/protection tools and spreed and reconfigured, and new uses and ways were found when humans gathered in huge groups ie metropolises, glass the same thing happened, on Google links they say that it has been around since the bronze age 3000 BC
Yes it happened a long time ago, but the story given in the first post could also read.
A Metallurgist from a Bronze age village goes on Holiday to a less developed Hunter Gatherer society.
he wonders at the quality of the vegetables he is given and asks how long it took to pick them.
"Oh not long I pick enough for my family"
The Bronze age man says "I know how to shape metal so that you could make a plow, you could then grow more vegetables and feed the whole village in less time, and with the money you make from the vegetables you can buy a second field and then start sending the extra vegetables to the next town.
As for things happening whether your in the town or the woods, well why don't you try constructing the large hadron collider by yourself in the woods and get back to me when you have finished.
[edit on 23-8-2010 by davespanners]
To me the moral of the original story just seems to be that any effort that you make to do anything other then make you and yours happy is a waste of time. It's the ultimate expression of self centered ego mania.
Originally posted by 12voltz
wrote this but i read it somewhere and it made sense,read it or dont.
Originally posted by davespanners
reply to post by davespanners
That is the only thing any of us is capable of doing, and if you are not capable of doing that, then you are not capable of doing anything...The ego is when you think you are capable of doing something more but aren't capable of doing it.
For someone who claims to know so much about inner happiness you seem quite angry about a lot of things.
I also don't appreciate being called stupid and slow, have reported your post.
So all of those people that go and build irrigation systems for Ethiopian villages and prevent hundreds of people from dying from contaminated water / lack of food etc are just wasting their time as well?
The people looking for cures for cancer, they might as well all pack up and go watch the TV?
People who work on charity phone lines helping to prevent child abuse, what a bunch of idiots they are for thinking they can help anyone but themselves.
I guess some people will say, well we are better off without all of this technology, but imagine a society that just spent their whole time fishing and sleeping, they never invented metallurgy, they never invented glass, and so they never invented the telescope and thus they were completely surprised when a large meteor hurtled down from the cosmos and smashed their idyllic village into a thousand pieces.