[Tfug] Cyber War -oh noes

[Bexley Hall]

Hi, Bowie,

--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:

[blech on the HTML post  :< ]

> The biggest threat this country faces is NOT what an
> outside force may do to our beloved shiny things. The 
> biggest threat to our nation is that we've forgotten
> *how to get along without* our shiny things.

Yup.

> We're already seeing it. Half this country can't find
> its own ass with both hands and a Garmin. The other half
> will starve without a cell phone. That's not to say we
> should all go Amish, but, we've lost sight of the fact
> that human beings can, and always have functioned
> successfully without these things. Soon we will have
> forgotten how, alltogether.

Apparently, The Mormons (LDS) are big on some of the
"basic survival" issues.  Sorry, I have no first hand
knowledge but from things I have stumbled upon, they
at least pay lip service to things like knowing how
to live in that "afterwards".

[aside:  the TV series "Jehrico" glossed over this a
bit; "Red Dawn" tackles it from the sovereignty side;
"The Day After: Beyond Imagining" is probably closest
to reality while "Special Report" is incredibly apropos
given recent events around the world]

(sigh)

I suspect much of it can be attributed to laziness and
greed.  :-/

How many folks can't "count change"?  Or, form a "correct"
sentence?  (or, write wItHoUt *abusing* punctuation!!  :> )

How many *question* what they are "told"?  How many know
how to find their own "answer"?  :-/

<shrug>  Dunno.  Perhaps it is attributable to people having
"less time" (?  then, where did all that time *go*?).

I *like* doing things myself.  It's distressing how much time
this often takes out of my schedule... but, I would hate to
join the crowd of Olde Retirede Fartes that sit around and
complain that "all they did" was *work* for 50-70 years
(and now they are too old/compromised to *do* anything).

Nothing beats the satisfaction of having *done* something
(instead of "having PAID someone to do it for you)