Egalite - Why Not Utopia?
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Egalite opening paragraph .....
Just for fun. - The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil
spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively
saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from
onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale.
Just for fun. - Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs
to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped
through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to
death. And the capper.......(plus a candidate for the 1998 Darwinian Award):
Egalite - Collective image psychology
More Egalite ....
A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter
in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling,
he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.
More Egalite ....
In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world
flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu he came down eight hours short
of the 400 day record to find that his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend
had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.
More about Egalite ....
A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically
with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric skillet.
Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked him with a handy
plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Until that
moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman.
More about Egalite ....
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Reevaluate your basic assumptions.
Basil Pillar
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