The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #70513 Message #1207410
Posted By: Amos
14-Jun-04 - 10:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Basic Causes of Western Stupidity
Subject: RE: BS: The Basic Causes of Western Stupidity
Well, it has been posited that having the basic needs supplied would free the attention to worry about higher things.
Of course it may be that having someone else do it for you just makes you into a dependent-minded servomechanism, not a freer or better person.
When I was in my 20's I found myself out of a job and forced to live on the charity of friends for a short while. I got a job and an apartment of my own within a week or three. There was never any question what would happen, one way or another. It was a shitty job but it gave me a place to stand on while I tried to build something better.
Anyway we have wandered a bit from the thread topic, unless someone wants to provide a bridge back...
A