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著者: Andrew Miller
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To: System undo crew
題目: Re: [unSYSTEM] Ping
do not adjust your tv set

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:04 PM, <futureleadersofdesign@???> wrote:
> Scene between brothers, Jack (Shia Le Boeuf) and Forrest Bondurant (Tom
> Hardy).
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzfEIHNUFmA
>
> Forrest: So you want to get into this racket. But I see you sitting there,
> looking like somebody’s punching bag. So I ask you……What do you intend to do
> now?
> Jack: What do I intend to-do?
> Forrest: Yeah. You. You expect somebody else to handle it?
> Jack: No.
> Forrest: Howard, maybe?
> Jack: That ain’t what I meant.
> Forrrest: What did you mean?
> Jack (mumbles): I don’t need no help.
> Forrest: I’m sorry?
> Jack: I don’t need no help.
> Forrest: Oh, you don’t? Here it is. As long as you are my brother, you will
> never let this happen again, do you understand?
> Jack: I get it.
> Forrest: I don’t think you do.
> Jack: What if I can’t? I mean, I ain’t… I’m not built like you and Howard. I
> ain’t never been like you.
> Forrest: It’s all right. Listen, Jack…It is not the violence that sets a man
> apart. It is the distance that he is prepared to go. Jack, look at me. We’re
> survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as
> dead. Do you understand? Do you?
>
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Noel Maersk <veox@???> wrote:
>
> There hasn't been mail to this list for a while now, makes me wonder if
> it's just me, or there's something wrong on the other end.
>
> I thought of sending something relevant, just to see if it goes through,
> but nothing really came to mind.
>
> Only thing perhaps is a recent talk with a few friends on the nature of
> authority, their argument being that power hierarchies is what made
> humanity safer. That people in general don't want to assume
> responsibility, and so passively follow a leader.
>
> They weren't concise on why, but among the reasons were ignorance,
> indifference, lack of aspiration, and the like. Thinking about it now,
> it strikes me how they didn't mention fear.
>
> It makes me feel sad - I think now they were talking not about "people
> in general", but themselves, perhaps unknowingly, perhaps in a detached
> fashion.
>
> It's also hard to argue about these things with other westerners. We
> think too much that everybody is like us, and even those who like to
> travel tend to praise what they've known for ages, once they're settled
> back in.
>
> The "nature of authority" and similar phrases are, of course, oxymorons
> I use here for lack of words and memory to reproduce the discussion
> verbatim.
>
> Anyway, just wanted to test if this list thingie still works, and
> thought it's best to have some entropy in the message. Now, repeat after
> me:
>
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
> consectetur adipiscing elit,
> sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt
> ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...
>
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