Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:34:23 -0400
From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Solution to the Problem


Here is a link to pictures of Meta Tantay where I lived.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediaspin/sets/661535/

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow you know that is not a bad idea, give us all 10K and screw the
> banks. =A0I'd spend it on a ...oh.. I guess I'd buy a newer Honda odysey
> and that wouldn't help the US, or perhaps it would because I'd buy it
> used in the US. =A0Yep that'll work for me. =A0I certainly wouldn't buy an
> American car they are made to break. =A0I can't kill my old foreign
> cars, they are like the die hard bunny. =A0Since this isn't a puppetry
> thread, I'll go on to say again that, should we all pull out of the
> finacilal mess then we are in bigger trouble because it will take 5
> earths to supply the newly middle class around the world with their
> "stuff". =A0This down turn has been a blessing in disguise because with
> out it =A0we would never have had the opportunity to pause and consider
> a sustainable future. =A0I for one feel like a very complicated animal
> and am envious of my cat who sleeps half the day and hunts at night.
> I can barely juggle the balls of 21th C life. =A0The paperwork along
> blows my feeble mind. =A0Humanlife on this planet is just another type
> of bubble which may POP if we blow it too big and it is mighty big
> now. =A0Growth growth growth.. may be the end of our gig here. =A033 years
> ago I spent two years on the Nevada Desert with a community of Native
> Americans. =A0We lived in huts woven from willows and fed ourselves and
> a host of animals off the throwaways from a grocery store which gave
> us a pick-up load a day for $25 a week. =A0I went there from
> Metropolitan NYC area and it was a revelation as to how contented one
> could live on very little. =A0It was truly satisfying to get down to
> basics and enjoy the simple pleasures. =A0Now I am in the thick of
> middle class life with all its complications but it makes me think of
> those days fondly. =A0Money is an abstraction which has enabled a very
> few to hog the cornucopia. =A0Money is inextricably connected to greed.
> It is its yeast. =A0And while most try to get their reasonably quota,
> some can't seem to resist raiding the candy jar. =A0I would probably be
> the first to accept a million dollar check but truly I think it
> somewhat obscene that a few can hold such wealth and justify it. =A0We
> all have different strengths but I think the game is rigged in favor
> of the $$ makers. =A0If the economy was based on creativity we'd be the
> ones out front but that is not the way it is. =A0Our civilization keeps
> upping the anti. =A0If it all falls apart I can show you how to make a
> wiki-up. =A0You can see some photos of the community at my facebook
> page.( i will friend you.
>
> 2009/3/25 Mathieu René <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>:
>> Thanks Brad and =A0Martin.
>>
>> I had forgotten one part of the equation: 40 million...people!
>> I somehow irrationally thought that they were talking about 40 people
>> getting a million each.
>>
>> Like I said, numbers aren't my Forte.
>>
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