RE: Reloaded with plastic pea pellets; a rant for Jim

One more turn on the carousel, I was sent to the grocery store on an errand
by the Boss and I peroused the book rack and I ran across a book called _The
Da Vinci Code_. I guess its the season of the hard sell.

Concerning Hume etc, I erroneosly assumed your reference to our supposed
reliance on grocery stores and phone companies etc was a reference to the
councilor Hume. I say supposed reliance since maybe that may be true for
most people or society in general, some of us can function to a practical
degree without grocery stores etc. We have the ability to raise our own
food, hunt and and have a capacity to enjoy life without all these
appliances. I have a friend from Missouri who said his family pioneered
thier homestead with an axe, a shotgun and a Bible. I know my ancestors
often had less and I was taught how to function with that less and I suspect
that many out there, probably most West of the Mississippi can too. Two
media pieces come to mind; Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell in reference to
your choices between the two rivals below and the movie Red Dawn with the
Wolverine's tenacity to live and fight from off the land. I watched that
Pioneer House series on PBS and I think these soft civilized urbanites could
adapt to the ways of their ancestors in a pinch. So, Mr. B's Hyper-reality
is still science fiction.

Daniel

I don't think I mentioned Locke or Hume once, come to think of it :).
Or even
really advocated a skeptical position. I was trying to be descriptive.

The problem Neo's facing (the problem postulated by the movie) seems to
me to be
choosing between two rival, false gods with no clear third alternative
in sight.

Jim
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