Website owner: James Miller
People are slaves. They are slaves due to their basic need for food and shelter. The demands of their stomach makes slaves of them all. I see the hordes of humanity out being driven by their stomach, competing in a harsh world whose basic law is survival of the fittest (the law of the jungle). They all serve under a yoke arising from their stomach. If they don't work they don't eat. People don't work because they want to. They work because they have to. The work world is harsh with many stresses. Most people would gladly leave it if they could. Suppose you were to offer the people of a society a free ticket entitling them to free food, shelter and cash for life, a present from the government. If you did this the line of people wanting it would be endless. It would be like offering them a million dollar lottery ticket for free. People would be willing to lie, cheat and steal for it and many people would kill for it. Almost everyone would line up for it. Now suppose you offered people such a ticket under the single proviso that they "make a baby" outside the bonds of marriage. If you made this offer in most societies of the world people just wouldn't be able to believe their ears. Here they are being offered the best gift anyone could ever offer in return for doing something that is just so much fun and something they would like to do anyway. In most parts of the world such an offer would be quite astounding. Here in the USA, however, such an offer wouldn't be a big thing, of course. Everyone knows our government has presented us with such an offer. It is a standing offer. It is the offer presented to us by our welfare system. It is an offer presented to at least all females here (men, to reap the benefits, must find some girlfriend who is a participant who will let them move in). In general people either are forced to face the basic facts of life by working and supporting themselves or they are shielded from having to face them because someone else is supporting them (as with children under the care of their parents, non- working wives dependent on their husbands and the welfare types being supported by the government) or because they are on a pension or have money stashed away (savings or inheritance). June 1996
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