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Martha, thanks for that. I only wish I had written it myself. Me, too.
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Thankfully, we are moving away from a world of exclusionary groupings into the atomistic world of freely associating individuals - a world where one person's ambitions and desires will never being amplified by the perverted strength of an exclusionary group to which the person belongs; a world where everyone acknowledges and lives by the great Truth: The Individual is the only legitimate entity and Property and the Individual are indivisible, neither having any meaning without the other. I'm not sure I "get" what you're saying. Could you givr an example? : * Exclusionary Groups: Labor Unions. Environmental Groups. Government of the Majority. * Freely Associating Individuals: Contractual business relationship. Industry/Business Organizations. The Church.
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Examples:
* Exclusionary Groups: Labor Unions. Environmental Groups. Government of the Majority.
* Freely Associating Individuals: Contractual business relationship. Industry/Business Organizations. The Church. OK. Thanks. Just out of curiosity, one more example. An Industry/Business Organization that isn't a Labor Union?
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...we are moving away from a world of exclusionary groupings into the atomistic world of freely associating individuals... Atoms, from which the word 'atomistic' is based, do not freely associate. Atoms bond and form compounds. Atoms do not exist in a freely associated vacuum - else when they do - they are called 'radicals' - 'free radical' is the correct nomenclature for the solo atom. Water is comprised of three atoms: Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Oxygen? Two Oxygen atoms - not one. 'Free radicals' are shown to cause harm to the environment and 'free radicals' have never been shown to be of any good. I'm just sayin'... 
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Martha, thanks for that. I only wish I had written it myself. Don't you have to live it, to write about it? The world is much different for my generation, than it was for yours. Gen X'ers didn't grow up in the lap of endless impossibilities. We grew up immediately with the Vietnam War in full-swing, Watergate, 1976 Oil Crisis, Astronomical housing interest rates in the early 80s. We've always lived in a world where money has been tight and services have been cut (Prop 13 in 1978) Gen X'ers have never known "good times." We've always grown up in a world of doom and gloom (Iran hostage situation, odd-even gas lines, Beirut killing of 200 Marines, Challenger explosion) - where you take two steps forward, and one step back. ...and we still have Baby Boomer bosses holding us down and not moving out of the way for us to advance up into the higher echelons of management. Baby Boomer bosses' current excuse for not moving out-of-the way: My 401K took a hit and I need to work a few more years. We are a repressed generation and our repressors are our elders.
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Martha, thanks for that. I only wish I had written it myself. Don't you have to live it, to write about it? Science fiction writers may beg to differ. 
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Examples:
* Exclusionary Groups: Labor Unions. Environmental Groups. Government of the Majority.
* Freely Associating Individuals: Contractual business relationship. Industry/Business Organizations. The Church. OK. Thanks. Just out of curiosity, one more example. An Industry/Business Organization that isn't a Labor Union? Of course not. Labor unions are Statist-Collectivist-Liberal exclusionary groups bent on extorting hard-working capitalist of their property through coercion - usually the threat of violence. Industry/Business Organizations are fellowships of free individuals gathering to discuss issues of interest to each individual in their noble pursuit of individual fulfillment. Unfortunately, due to the unholy alliance of State and Unions bent on the destruction of the individual, often the issue most salient to business organizations is how to confront the existential threat posed by the Collectivists.
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...we are moving away from a world of exclusionary groupings into the atomistic world of freely associating individuals... Atoms, from which the word 'atomistic' is based, do not freely associate. Atoms bond and form compounds. Atoms do not exist in a freely associated vacuum - else when they do - they are called 'radicals' - 'free radical' is the correct nomenclature for the solo atom. Water is comprised of three atoms: Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Oxygen? Two Oxygen atoms - not one. 'Free radicals' are shown to cause harm to the environment and 'free radicals' have never been shown to be of any good. I'm just sayin'... at·om·is·tic
adj. 1.Of or having to do with atoms or atomism.
2.Consisting of many separate, often disparate elements: an atomistic culture. at·om·ism
n. Philosophy
1.The ancient theory of Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius, according to which simple, minute, indivisible, and indestructible particles are the basic components of the entire universe.
2.A theory according to which social institutions, values, and processes arise solely from the acts and interests of individuals, who thus constitute the only true subject of analysis.
at'om·ist n.
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2.A theory according to which social institutions, values, and processes arise solely from the acts and interests of individuals, who thus constitute the only true subject of analysis.
at'om·ist n. Ok... ![[Linked Image from i48.photobucket.com]](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f228/ca_rickf/Smilies/indifferent.gif)
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Science fiction writers may beg to differ. Very true. ![[Linked Image from i48.photobucket.com]](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f228/ca_rickf/Smilies/thumbs.gif) Mr. Obama's life isn't science fiction - it's real life. ![[Linked Image from i48.photobucket.com]](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f228/ca_rickf/Smilies/icon_smile.gif) (...contrary to some his haters may feel. ![[Linked Image from i48.photobucket.com]](http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f228/ca_rickf/Smilies/icon_razz.gif) )
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