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2000-07-25 || 4.25p Nautical dreams and bitchery I would never work again. I'd just sit at home and write books. Ah, whatta life... Why are these things so expensive ? Sheesh! I wonder if things like that would be more affordible if the planet were almost all water, or would people charge more for them because people would have no choice but to buy them just to get around? I dunno. AT some point, we lost track of the basic ability to build things. If you go a bit further back in our history as a planet, before the industrial revolution and all it's associated evils, people built their houses and stuff, further back, every spoon and bowl in every Amerindian village was hand made as a work of art, not bought off a shelf after being built by a machine. And to-day, we pay hundreds of grand on houses built by others and licensed. Licensed. If you build your own house, you can't sell it because of a lack of licensed workmanship. Now, I understand the need for safety. If you don't know how to wire, don't do it. Period. But surely it would not be impossible to re-imbue people with a sence of artisanery? Maybe not houses, but cabinets, tables, chairs... Because we are all consumers, which translates beautifully into 'slaves of corporations.' I hate being that. I really, really hate it.
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shite One last little note... - 09.21.2006 de-stressing, biking and terrorism - 06.06.2006 Mildly stressed... - 05.29.2006 More crime stupidity - 05.28.2006 Scary stuff - 05.25.2006
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