[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 01:29:47 -0700
I wrote:
> Earlier today (or, depending on where you are, yesterday), I wrote, in
> response to Phil Enns:
>
> …When I’m drowning, it’s mere life I want; when I want an operation that
> would prevent me from losing my sight and hearing, it’s something more.
> Of course, sight and hearing may not be that big a deal for non-Alphas
>
> The reference to 'non-Alphas' here was in no way aimed at Phil (or at
> anyone else on the list). I'm rereading Brave New World, that's all.
I'll get this straight yet. In a convoluted and unnecessary way I meant
to imply that unless you were an Alpha, or at least a Beta-minus, it
wouldn't matter whether you had a right to such an operation, for
advanced medical procedures would be available only to the higher orders
in any case, and Deltas and Epsilons wouldn't expect to get them. What a
mess. It was even a bad interpretation of BNW, where the lower orders
had to be kept in good repair. It was a sentence not worth fixing.
Still, a gramme is better than a damn.
Robert Paul
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