This is a letter I wrote to my friend Missy. It's self explanatory...

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So my latest refining of a disturbing thought is this:

An interesting note to set the stage--- In Africa (or some other tribal 
area) there is this tribe of people who basically live the tribal life. 
But here's the point, they spend like three or so hours each day 
farming, hunting, gathering, whatever and then they're done. Poof. 
They spend the rest of the day working on arts and crafts or 
thinking about God or whatever. It takes them three hours each day 
to take care of their needs and that's all they spend on it.

So we live in this amazing consumption based society. Now I support 
capitalism, it's financial Darwinism and thus works. It works 
because it forces people on an individual, personal basis to work. So 
it's pretty much inescapable.

Now I'm thinking one day about all of the beuracrats and middlemen 
that exist in today's society that didn't exist before and I realized 
that these jobs exist because there are people to fill them. These 
jobs exist because there are people to employ not because they need 
to be done. Of course now that they exist they are needed... But still, 
if a nuclear war happened tomorrow, in thirty seconds wiped out 
half the population of the world, and then society reformed, I 
garauntee that the gears of civilization would turn much as they do 
now, but without those people.

Basically the system is sprouting hamster wheels to make sure 
everyone is running eventhough only about half of us are actually 
needed. Why is this a disturbing thought? First, becasue this growth 
is in my direction. The entertainment industry is what is going to 
carry this. After all, a farmer only needs so many people to steer the 
automatic thresher. In fact, the insurge of money and the max-
marketing of every new and original idea is really what brought this 
to light recently.

But also, this is disturbing because I see it as another symptom of a 
fat bloated situation for the world. Now that is not good because itıs 
a precursor of change and change at this point in history will be 
violent. If not in a blood shed way, in a very jarring way.

Oh well, On a lighter note, I'm going out dancing in my new kilt in 
about ten minutes. I sewed it today-- I got let off of work early and 
was attacked by the muse.

Hasta, Bride