"An industrial capitalist society that does not recognize ecological limits but only perpetual economic expansion and has the profit motive as driver, will eventually consume and destroy itself."
"But we will all be taken down with it."
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The party turned out to be okay. I had to explain Mennonites. I didn't talk much. That's always the trick. People love to talk about themselves. Gay Buddhists. Jewish lesbian Bostonites. White liberal Seattlites. White Texan philosophy grad students married to white liberal Seattlites. And so on. And about 10pm everyone left to go bar hopping. Everyone except me. I went home on the metro.
Where I found Tim Kennel. He'd been in Vancouver for a family reunion for the past week but is home now. I talked to him about his job (eliminating bad addresses from Census Dept. lists), tried to find NBC (unsuccessfully so no SNL), read personal ads (some very optimistic: "looking for petite female (under 120 lbs.)"), and drank iced mint tea with vanilla Bacardi which almost was the highlight of the night.