From: Fuckit@yabbs
To: arachnoi@yabbs
Subject: Read a book II
Date: Fri Jun 10 01:15:45 1994

I, Fuckit, shall speak for Xela, as lag has logged me out...

That said...

"Xela go back to class, u need it.  Def: Electorate - A body of Qualified 
voters.  If u count only those who bothered to vote, yur numbers are 
correct...."

Tell me why I should bother to consider those who *didn't* bother to vote? 
 How is their voice relevant to your point, if they *chose* NOT to have a 
voice?  Someone certainly needs to class.

"The basic premise of capitalism is FREE enterprise and association..."

Let me quote a favorite psychologist of mine:
    "...where the members of an unorganized group exchange goods and 
    services under informal contingencies, an economic instituition or
    agency clarifies special roles - such as those of employer, worker,
    buyer, and seller - and constructs special types of *reinforcers*
    [emphasis added], such as *money and credit* [emp. added again].
                                        B.F.Skinner, Beyond Freedom and 
                                                    Dignity

If you have ever cracked open a psych. textbook, or taken a psych. course, 
you will understand the significance of the word "reinforcers," which has 
serious behavorial implication to what you claim about capitalism, which 
you maintain is "free" in some sense.  Instead control is taken out of the 
government's hands and put instead into the hands of those who have money, 
which are accepted psychological reinforcers; they influence or detain 
certain types of behavior, which can hardly be called free.

"think about your answer before you make a fool of yourself"

I'm not worried about my image to you.  However, someone who fails to 
spell correctly *intentionally* doesn't seem to show much smarts himself.

I've quoted a respectable Harvard psychologist; I've made my point.  
Insult me all you wish, but you still have nothing to back yourself up 
with.

I'm waiting.