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Underground eXperts United
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[ Nothing Comes From Nothing ] [ By Absolute Zero ]
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Nothing Comes From Nothing
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by Absolute Zero
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A comfortable way to dodge questions of magnitude, yet at the same time
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appear sincerely engaged in something "important", is to over and over again
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involve oneself in so-called small projects.
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These kind of projects can virtually be whatever. One can search for a
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new home for a lost kitten, raise money for a scarf to someone who has lost
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his own, pray to God every morning, or why not start up a public society for
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advancing the knowledge on how to use a remote control?
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Explicit justification for such projects are always the same: "... one
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cannot bear the troubles of the whole world on one's shoulders, one ought
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to attempt to do the little, because then the big will become better too."
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On other words, the more people that do "the little" the better it will
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be for "the big"; that is, one and every individual within the biosphere.
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It is assumed that "little things" automatically have a cumulative effect; a
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mountain can equally well be created out of a single giant rock as billions
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and billions pebbles.
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Bearing in mind the state and constitution of the world, one surely
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cannot demand that all people give up their personal projects and lives in
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favor of universal interests. To suggest that would be to be utterly
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inhuman. But it is really proper to claim that "doing little things" will
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lead to utopia? Ought we give up all speculation on this question, and
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conclude that "doing little things" will not merely MAYBE have the desired
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consequences, but that it in fact will, BY NECESSITY?
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Of course not; it does not take much brain power to understand that. It
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does not matter if we had had thousands and thousands of people washing
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windows, collecting garbage, reading poetry, serving coffee, discussing
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Sartre, telling stories to children, writing textfiles, analysing concepts,
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happily throwing billions and billions of pebbles onto the pile of supposed
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progress, and so on, inside Chernobyl. The reactor had exploded anyhow.
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So what are we going to do?
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Hey you, this has been a REFLECTION
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more available at <www.uxu.org/nag>
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but only if you understand Swedish.
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