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The Library of Babel

August 18, 2008 - 5:53 pm - by Richard Fernandez
buddy larsen
2008-08-19 11:33:02

somebody else needed the food & energy, and education & medical care you’ve consumed. somebody else needed the fillings in your teeth. somebody else needed your wife. somebody else needed your parents. but if somebody else had all that, then you would be the somebody else who needs them. Question we need to ask: am i worthy? if so, why? if not, don’t i have a problem? how can i fix it?

WSJ’s Robert Frank was just on tv, promoing new book “Richistan”. He said the number of millionaires in USA doubled in the last ten years, and that as of now one in twelve US households had a net worth of $1mm or more.

That’s what the ravening South Ossetians burning Georgia are on the march to re-balance. The message is, if they can’t have all that stuff, then neither can you.