Dear Theem:
 
I help to organize "Really,Really Free Markets."
I participate therein.
And we are all human beings.
 
Gelflings would fit in a "Really Free Market."
 
I could envision them doing it first.


--- On Tue, 10/21/08, theem_from <Mondo_Generator_44@...> wrote:

From: theem_from <Mondo_Generator_44@...>
Subject: [CrystalCorner] Re: Dynamics of Poverty
To: CrystalCorner@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 9:08 PM






--- In CrystalCorner@ yahoogroups. com, louise rothstein
<crystalfan2912@ ...> wrote:
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> Dear John Ardelli:
>  
> The "Dynamics of Poverty" had crass counterparts in old Thra:
> The Skeksis had money.
> They had ALL the money.
> Nobody else had any money at all.
>  
> That was not what bothered the Gelflings and Pods:
> They never HAD any money...and they never missed it.
> All of their markets were REALLY free markets:
> They NEVER used ANY money at all.
>  
> They didn't barter.
> That's not what they did.
> Everyone brought things.
> And everyone took.
>  
> Their human counterparts hold "Really,Really, Free Markets."
> People bring unused items.
> And take other peoples'.
>  
> Carry this concept to planetwide scale...
>  
> You will envision the markets of Thra.
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You seem to forget that your talking about Gelflings and not human
beings.. Gelflings seem to be a much more evolved and enlightened
species than we human beings. Our nature is absolutely nothing like
the Gelflings. Gelflings are a people who can not only live in
harmony with each other without a need for things like money but can
even live in harmony with nature. Human beings have a much darker
nature than the gentle Gelfling.

Our nature truely does more reflect that of the Skeksis. The way
they calliously used up the planet Thra the way they horded personal
possessions for themselves dispite how few of them there actually was
the fact that they were willing to destroy the planet they were
living on just for a chance of preserving themselves for a little bit
longer. They had not only no respect for nature but for other people
the way they waged war and oppressed the weaker races.

Human beings simply do not have it in us to live like the Gelfling we
are too easily corrupted. It is my firm beleif that there is no
potential for our species at all.


















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