rocketwarrior
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Elitists
Awww, c'mon Charles. We were getting along very well, living in caves, hunting, fiddlin' with fire, trying out this "upright" thing, etc. Then, a group of elitists (monks, I think, during a candle lit slumber party) decided to cut us out by deciding we should communicate in writing. First scribes, then printing press, then the word processor. We were doomed. New rule, boys and girls - everyone has to learn to read and write or be left behind. Doesn't matter how good a talker you are, the new rule says ya gots ta be able to read it and write it down. Uff dah.
Of course y'all have this handy dandy justification - progress. But I still think it was just an elitist coup to carve away the riff-raff. Sigh!
I have a client who just can't seem to bring himself to read his mail. I understand. I sympathize. He is a good listener, and can out talk all of us at the local diner table (well, maybe not me). But he looks at the envelope, unfolds the paper - words - no, more specifically, written words. And "the system," "this conspiracy of elitists." expects him to sit down and read them. And he looks around - who makes these rules anyway? Was it brought to a vote?
He looks at his cracked and puffy hands. Those hands designed to build, to create, to fight, to fashion, to mold,to waive, to salute, to ask for permission to go to the bathroom, to make shadows on the cave all,to emphasize - and he tries to imagine them picking up a quill. Instead of wringing a neck, he is expected to pluck out a quill and dip it in ink. Aaaarrrggghhhhh! But he knows the fight was lost long ago.
Oh, Charles, you're right.
But as a point of clarification, I think this thread only quite by accident got on this subject.
Awww, c'mon Charles. We were getting along very well, living in caves, hunting, fiddlin' with fire, trying out this "upright" thing, etc. Then, a group of elitists (monks, I think, during a candle lit slumber party) decided to cut us out by deciding we should communicate in writing. First scribes, then printing press, then the word processor. We were doomed. New rule, boys and girls - everyone has to learn to read and write or be left behind. Doesn't matter how good a talker you are, the new rule says ya gots ta be able to read it and write it down. Uff dah.
Of course y'all have this handy dandy justification - progress. But I still think it was just an elitist coup to carve away the riff-raff. Sigh!
I have a client who just can't seem to bring himself to read his mail. I understand. I sympathize. He is a good listener, and can out talk all of us at the local diner table (well, maybe not me). But he looks at the envelope, unfolds the paper - words - no, more specifically, written words. And "the system," "this conspiracy of elitists." expects him to sit down and read them. And he looks around - who makes these rules anyway? Was it brought to a vote?
He looks at his cracked and puffy hands. Those hands designed to build, to create, to fight, to fashion, to mold,to waive, to salute, to ask for permission to go to the bathroom, to make shadows on the cave all,to emphasize - and he tries to imagine them picking up a quill. Instead of wringing a neck, he is expected to pluck out a quill and dip it in ink. Aaaarrrggghhhhh! But he knows the fight was lost long ago.
Oh, Charles, you're right.
But as a point of clarification, I think this thread only quite by accident got on this subject.
