RE: [Leica] Who'd be a PJ in these troubled times?

["Doug Ford" <dford@san.rr.com>]

Way off topic


Realism? not reality. At least here in the States.
I guess I took the statement literally. Perhaps Anonymous was living in
another time and place when he/she made the statement. Or they were just
misinformed. Being 'Anonymous' you don't have to defend/explain yourself.
Perhaps 'anonymous' was making a political statement, selfishly motivated,
at the expense of the less fortunate. We'll never know.

"People have never been more wealthy and still we keep hearing about how the
economy, this abstract entity, is doing better than ever, and while the rich
are posting on the LUG, they are also buying more Leicas and selling their
N****'s to the rest of us." - Anonymously Doug

Percentage of people in poverty, by Definition of Income: 1979 to 2000

2000....11.3
1999....11.8
1998....12.7
1997....13.3
1996....13.7
1995....13.8
1994....14.5
1993....15.1
1992r...14.8
1991r...14.2
1990....13.5
1989....12.8
1988....13.0
1987....13.4
1986....13.6
1985....14.0
1984....14.4
1983....15.2
1982....15.0
1981....14.0
1980....13.0
1979....11.7

I for one, who have the wherewithal to own such a finely engineered machine,
such as Leica's are, don't take the privilege lightly.

God bless


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Gary Elshaw
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 7:15 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Who'd be a PJ in these troubled times?


Doug wrote about my signature line:
"People have never been more poor and still we keep hearing about how the
economy, this abstract entity, is doing better than ever, and while the rich
are building summer houses they are also building ghettos for the rest of
us."

- - --Anonymous

> Anonymous - commie or socialist?

I don't know what their political affiliation is Doug, not that it really
matters; you can still be a capitalist and say these kinds of things. Some
would even say it's realism.

Be well,
Gary


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"Now, given that kind of time span, it's just not easy to think of Ned Lud
as a technophobic crazy. No doubt what people admired and mythologized him
for was the vigor and single- mindedness of his assault. But the words "fit
of insane rage" are third-hand and at least 68 years after the event. And
Ned Lud's anger was not directed at the machines, not exactly. I like to
think of it more as the controlled, martial-arts type anger of the dedicated
Badass."

Thomas Pynchon
Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?
The New York Times Book Review, 28 October 1984

OO
[_]<|    Gary Elshaw
 /|\        Post-Grad Film Student
              Victoria University
              New Zealand
http://elshaw.tripod.com/
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