Welcome to the comments, ‘Chuck’.
I have met a lot of ‘famous’ people, especially in the computer world as I was in San Diego for a decade when things were just taking off, but most of them were arrogant pieces of work who believed their own PR.
My friend was a collector of ‘strays’, mostly cats, but a few dogs and people. She didn’t have a lot, but she shared what she had. That’s how communities are built.
]]>Great post, just the way you describe your friend shows the impact she had on your life, which in turn, you passed it on here to others, and as you live and interact with other outside this blog, you will spread her spirit, as well as yours. It may not seem as effective as being a Randian Butthead superstar with all of the press fawning over your every move, but maybe, in the log run, it will make a difference in the world.
I can here via Badtux, I will look forward to coming to your blog everyday.
Chuckle…I want to be a penguin…Nuts
]]>Jill, ‘society’ has become so devalued as a concept that it is not worth considering.
]]>I don’t know what the solution is to reform a system of evil incentives that most people apparently never question, but the end point of where we’re currently going is hell on Earth, and I’m tired of being in this handbasket.
]]>They will certainly have a problem when the sea level overtakes the Caymans because doing anything about climate change might have cost them money.
]]>You see people at the bottom of the economic ladder being generous because they haven’t been rewarded for being selfish. People at the top… they’ve been showered with rewards for being selfish, so what personal incentive do they have to change? Of course, you can’t organize a long-term sustainable society that way, but if you’re personally doing well and have a villa in the Caymans waiting for you if things go south, why should you care?
– Badtux the Rewards-and-punishments Penguin
]]>One of the things I have had to accept over the years is that it is the people with little who will share what they have, while those with much, only seek more. That is not the way things should be if we are going to exist as a nation, or community at any level.
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