On 3 Sep 2008 10:05:03 -0500, Qrious <asdf@asdf.com> wrote:
>In article <48b4fcd6$0$1576$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>,
> (Yenc-PP-A&A) <UVRae> (UVR) wrote:
>
>> This is one of my favorite series even though the US
>> mistreated this young lad. I wonder how he feels about
>> the United States now.
>>
>> Elian Gonzales pics compiled, scanned and posted by
>> "Qrious".
>>
>> UVRae.
>
>
>Thank you for posting these UVRae! I had lost them all in a crash years
>ago. It is so great to see them again.
>
>I compiled these but only a few were scans. The rest were from various
>on-line news sources, hence the variance in size and quality. One does
>what one can.
>
>At the time I posted these, they generated a lot of political
>discussion. I tried to remain politically neutral, but I still believe
>now what I believed then: where you live and what you possess don't make
>you happy. Happiness is a choice we all make. The people who assumed he
>would be happier in the U.S. because of all the things he could have
>were dead wrong. Children can be just as happy kicking a can in the
>street with friends.
>
>If you live in the U.S. and you really believe your government doesn't
>control you every bit as much as Castro does, you are very very naive.
>
>Qrious.
Well said, Qrious. Precisely.
It is rather the serious task of the pleasure purveyors of the
philosophy of consumerism to make people unhappy, rather than happy:
that they should be unhappy until they purchase the latest Happy Meal,
or the newest Ipod, or the biggest tellie, or the trendi-est shirt.
This, then is Modern Consumerism, which seduces the very young, such
as Elian.
As the foremost culture of consumerism, I wonder how happy Americans
are, generally.
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