[lit-ideas] Re: Ye Olde Dialectic

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 00:29:50 -0500

EY:

I don't matter much to the world; if I starved to death, it would not make a difference.

Awww, Eric, buck up, Buckeroo. None of us make a difference. Except that the history of the world would be different without you. Without the bacteria in your gut also. Without that lepton leaping like a leprechon on you nose. So it depends on how you're measuring difference, bro. I measure it in terms of myself. Does it matter if I wake up in the morning? Well, if I don't, I'll never know I didn't wake up -- so hell yes it matters! Apres moi, le rien. I keep this whole fucking show going. You may not realize that, coming as you do from a different perspective, but it's true as far as I'm concerned, you probably see it differently. So celebrate your godship over the world. Ring bells, chant Magnificats, swing thurifers in adoration of yourself, stink up the world with your scents, what awaits us but the stygian waters of oblivion. My greatest consolation in life was realizing that one day this whole solar system will go poof and none of this ever happened. No one will ever know about humans or this heroic struggle to know. No ideas of God, no art, no measuring of the universe, no Shakespeare, nothing. All gone in the poof of a supernova Sunday. You're free, baby. Free to do anything you want to do or dare to do or feel compelled by love to do. Go do it.

Compelled to sleep now,
Mike Geary
Memphis


----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:51 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Ye Olde Dialectic


How to people react to the Marxist doctrine of NOT giving to charity?

The idea is that by giving to charity, you are only trying to make yourself feel better. Plus you are damaging society by covering up the failures of society in dealing with its outcasts and miserables.

Sounds incredibly cold hearted doesn't it?

On the other hand, the more people give to relief agencies, the less the government has to live up to its end of the social contract, the more money in the coffers to give back to the superrich.

If I were in NO, I'd want all charities and relief agencies and governmental help to come running. But that's just me. I don't matter much to the world; if I starved to death, it would not make a difference.

Yours in ping pong,
Eric

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