In article <i6GdnYucnNZXv7PVnZ2dnUVZ_r7inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Ned Ludd <andy.block@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Anthony Minkoff wrote:
> > In article <ZPGdnTb68cGj-LDVnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > Ned Ludd <andy.block@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> I can also argue that "none of us" would be down on the street. We
> >> wouldn't necessarily see any of this.
> >
> > A cop shoots a running woman in the back in front of hundreds of
> > witnesses, as it doesn't make the news? Word doesn't get around at
all?
> >
> > Some of us have grown up to be "losers who spend time on the streets,"
> > and some of us have grown up to be "people who matter," and
> > communication between the two groups has been so completely severed
that
> > something can be known by tens of thousands of people in Group A
(don't
> > tell me witnesses would be so nanchalant about it that they wouldn't
> > even mention it to friends, family, and acquaintances), and not a
single
> > person in Group B would ever hear a word about it?
>
> Again, imagine a future society that is very much divided.
>
> The "losers who spend their time on the street" are little people, they
> are disposable.
>
> Sure, they might mention it to friends, family, acquaintances, but who
> cares -- the "little people" are on the ground, and the people who
> matter, the people who might care, are riding around in spinners.
>
> We're talking about a dystopian society here and as far as I can tell,
> the society we live in now has yet to reach dystopia.
Again, this future is the year 2019. The people who inhabit this world
grew up and learned their moral values around the time (1982) when the
movie was released.
I understand that the people who have the power and influence to do
something meaningful mostly live in towers and ride in spinners. Today
it's mansions and BMWs, tomorrow it's towers and spinners. How does
that make them not care about a cop shooting a woman in the back?
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