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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:41:14 EDT
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- From: Robert Holder <robert@WHIPLASH.ER.USGS.GOV>
- Subject: YOU'RE FIRED
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- upon re-reading my message, I realized that not everybody
- will interpret my loose-quote of fuller the way I have.
- It can also be interpreted in the traditional darwinian-
- capitalistic way so popular in "free-enterprise" america.
-
- I just wanted to come back and say that while I have many
- doubts about capitalism being the BEST system, I think it
- is the best thing going, and certainly (in my mind) beats
- communism or socialism which clearly do not motivate the
- individual to strive for their own perfection.
-
- I am not so much a believer in capitalism and democracy
- as I am an enemy of communism and dictatorships. And I
- have become bitter by the tidy numbing euphemisms I keep
- hearing like how the homeless are people who "have fallen
- through the cracks".
-
- There is one thing I DO know: my mind is just as imprisoned
- as that of Michael Milken or anybody else I would prop up
- as my enemy, and what I REALLY need is not a gun but a
- MAP. So far, I haven't heard anyone who is able to point
- the way in a manner that enough people of differing beliefs
- can agree to follow together.
-
- OK, that's my clarifier, now back to the question: what
- is Fuller's plan?
-
- robert h
-