Re: CORE

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Jeff Williams wrote:

> > >   You must understand that we live in Commerce drivin world, my friend!
> > 
> > This is a myth. If it was true we would just let large companies run the
> > world's governments and not bother with democracy. In reality, commerce
> > does not drive the world, rather it responds to the needs of people.
> > Companies who refuse to listen to their customers soon find themselves
> > left behind.
> 
>   I don't understand how anyone whom is an adult in todays world cannot
> see that they live in a commerce drivin world!  That is just amazing to
> me!!

Then expand your horizons. It's a bige wide world out there.

> When you want to eat, you have to buy the food, hence a commercial
> transaction
> has just occured.  That is commerce.  

I grow some of my food and I also eat a lot of wild things that I don't
pay anybody for. We get some food as gifts and we trade for food. We also
buy some. Life is not so simple. We get food in return for work, for
friendship, and for money.

My family lives on 17 acres of land, 20 minutes north of the nearest city
of 40,000 people. Another 45 minutes south is the big city, 90,000 people
and an airport. Our world is completely different from your world, such as
the three feet of snow that is currently surrounding us. Last night at
midnight I looked out the window and everything glowed because sown
blanketed the ground, the trees, the mountains, and the sky was filled
with cloud. There was no black anywhere, just a uniform light grey color.
I went to a play Saturday evening that happened in a field at the edge of
a forest. We sat on horse-drawn sleighs and watched the actors perform
O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi" with whisps of steam coming from their
mouths every time they spoke or breathed out. I don't know the exact
temperature but the lightly falling snow was dry powder and it was
starting to squeak along with the crunch when you walked on it.

This is not the world of commerce, my friend.


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