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Danielismyname
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15 Oct 2008, 7:53 am

Tim_Tex wrote:

I meant how we would design the road systems, infrastructure, etc.

That's what council workers, builders and engineers are for.

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Hippie 1 – Right now we're proving we don't need corporations. We don't need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other.
Hippie 2 – Yeah, we'll have one guy who like makes bread and one guy who like looks out for other people's safety.
Stan – You mean like a baker and a cop?
Hippie 1 – No. No. Can't you imagine a place where people live together and like provide services for each other in exchange for their services?
Kyle – Yeah, it's called a town.

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15 Oct 2008, 8:38 am

Danielismyname wrote:

Tim_Tex wrote:

I meant how we would design the road systems, infrastructure, etc.

That's what council workers, builders and engineers are for.

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Communes can be towns, and we can have councils, etc.

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15 Oct 2008, 8:57 am

Danielismyname wrote:

Tim_Tex wrote:

I meant how we would design the road systems, infrastructure, etc.

That's what council workers, builders and engineers are for.

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Ah, you mean you hate them because they might not be able to cope without the very society they've turned their backs on?

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15 Oct 2008, 8:59 am

But people don't play fair...

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15 Oct 2008, 10:39 am

All this talk about structure, man. You're bumming me out, man. Like, just groove on life ....

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15 Oct 2008, 10:54 am

ToughDiamond wrote:

Ah, you mean you hate them because they might not be able to cope without the very society they've turned their backs on?

No, I hate hippies because hippies suck (seriously: flower power, pot smoking, make love not war, etcetera. Ah! That stuff drives Daniel the genocidal warmonger insane). I hate gypsies far more however.

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15 Oct 2008, 12:04 pm

My father had been a Hippie for a time, but he hated marijuana... :lol:

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seriously: flower power, pot smoking, make love not war, etcetera

I agree, those are dumb things... (especially "Make love not war." What am I supposed to do if I can't make love? LOL.) But I chalk it up to "naiveity" more than anything else. They didn't really know better, it just seemed like an alternative to global nuclear annihilation.

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15 Oct 2008, 12:11 pm

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Hippie 1 – Right now we're proving we don't need corporations. We don't need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other.
Hippie 2 – Yeah, we'll have one guy who like makes bread and one guy who like looks out for other people's safety.
Stan – You mean like a baker and a cop?
Hippie 1 – No. No. Can't you imagine a place where people live together and like provide services for each other in exchange for their services?
Kyle – Yeah, it's called a town.

Whilst I agree that Hippies do generally suck and that south park does rule this quote kinda misses the point about modern society.

Whilst most of us provide services for each other in exchange for other services the people who make the real money do f all in the way of providing services. This is a society that rewards people for manipulation of others and being born into the right family far more than it does people who actually work and do something useful for a living.

Sorry in advance if I turn this thread into a political thing

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15 Oct 2008, 12:16 pm

oli234 wrote:

Whilst most of us provide services for each other in exchange for other services the people who make the real money do f all in the way of providing services. This is a society that rewards people for manipulation of others and being born into the right family far more than it does people who actually work and do something useful for a living.

QFT. And what really bugs me is when they say "You just gotta pull yourself up by the boot-straps." They act like there are so many opportunities and we're so dumb/lazy for not taking them, but the reality is that they've been systematically removing those opportunities. And look where it's got us.

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15 Oct 2008, 12:30 pm

Cyberman wrote:

... global nuclear annihilation.

It would have been beautiful.

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15 Oct 2008, 12:35 pm

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Okay, which one?

Is there some way we could listen to all of them at the same time - now that would be far out.

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15 Oct 2008, 5:56 pm

well, we could buy an island someplace nice, if everybody would chip in we could make it work... we'd build a community, with a wooden hut and a hammoc for each WP member, loads of living space, with no forced socialising, no unaffiliated NTs allowed on the island... we could get all the genius guys to do research there that is illegal elsewhere... if any of it works, we could make loads of money on it and invest it further...

we could open a bank for rich people who want to hide their income... do some serious money laundering, buy a few goldmines in Africa... we could make our community flourish on money earned by NTs and invested in our scientific research... hell, we could get the best brains there are on our side... they are all autistic anyway!

the opportunities are endless!

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15 Oct 2008, 5:57 pm

All these negative vibes, man. Like just take another toke, and watch the pretty butterflies....

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