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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

“How about if I point at a tree and make the claim that tree suffers from not being able to move around. That isn’t fair either.”

Sorry - but you’re the one who brought up the subject of trees and “fairness”!

“The Trees” - by RUSH

“...And the trees are all kept equal,
by hatchet, axe, and saw.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4amV7__XFA


11 posted on 07/13/2018 4:49:15 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: 21twelve
I was thinking how much this piece reminded me of Francisco D'Ancona's "Money is the Root of All Evil" soliloquy from Atlas Shrugged. In just a few snippets:

“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another–their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

“But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich–will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt–and of his life, as he deserves.

“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns–or dollars. Take your choice–there is no other–and your time is running out.”

20 posted on 07/13/2018 5:27:49 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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