[Alumni-chat] What will the BOT do?

[Jon Estes]

On 9/5/07, alanbenard (alanbenard at pobox.com) <
alumni-chat_forum at antiochians.org> wrote:
>
>
> >>Find me a job
> >>that does not require me to contribute in some way to the oppression of
> this
> >>planet and the lifeforms found upon it by way of stealing, lying,
> cheating,
> >>segmenting & fragmenting my personality, and/or indirectly or directly
> >>murdering my fellow human beings and I'll gladly grab a mop and be the
> first
> >>in line to sign up for bathroom cleaning duties.
> >I know how you feel. From the vantage of almost 60 I see the dreams of
> youth
> >in ashes. But really it's always been a 50-50 proposition. The ying and
> the
> >yang. Its possible that a more humanistic regime will arise here in our,
> >your lifetimes. Sometimes the striving is as important as the result.
> There's a spot, somewhere, where your actions will do more good than harm
> on balance. Look for ways to help people one-on-one, even if it is in the
> belly of a badly-run system that causes people grief. People will need you
> and appreciate you being the human who will go to bat for them within that
> system more than a clean bathroom.
>
> Alan Benard, '92


aw.. this is sweet of you alan but i really am a fairly optimistic guy that
just happens to be afflicted with realistic rhetoric. Completely agree with
your comments above and would add that this is precisely what keeps me
sticking around. that and to find out what happens.

what do you have against clean bathrooms, anyway? The multiplicity of
meanings you've somehow encapsulated in that last sentence is mind-boggling
and i'm going to have to sit down and think about what it should mean. Your
mission to encourage is thereby accomplished.


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