kermit
10-04-2005, 12:13 AM
“…In cooler weather, scarves appear and end up draped over everything. In squats it’s the same, but hand washed and hung by fires and everywhere, like a grade school with no teachers and no rules. But it’s different, there actually are a million tiny rules that no one ever articulates.
“No society ever actually exists on a sense of freedom. It’s always on a river of rules, even if they are written by looks and glances and held in place by ghosts. No society, from the most savage to the most evolved, is free of rules—rules forged by taking chances, and held in place by glances.
“Every society, from apes clubbing each other, to squatting punk anarchists, to the technologically advanced mecha-utopia, has these bodies of law. There may not exist a papyrus etched with their proof, but they exist just as true.
“If you wish to inspire action in the heart of your fellow man, you must remember… :ufo:
“You are a beautiful cat in a room full of gerbils.”
“No society ever actually exists on a sense of freedom. It’s always on a river of rules, even if they are written by looks and glances and held in place by ghosts. No society, from the most savage to the most evolved, is free of rules—rules forged by taking chances, and held in place by glances.
“Every society, from apes clubbing each other, to squatting punk anarchists, to the technologically advanced mecha-utopia, has these bodies of law. There may not exist a papyrus etched with their proof, but they exist just as true.
“If you wish to inspire action in the heart of your fellow man, you must remember… :ufo:
“You are a beautiful cat in a room full of gerbils.”