Ah, but we'll still be autocrossing, right? :)
--Pat K
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>From: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>
>To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: THINK ORGANIC
>Date: Tue, Nov 6, 2001, 3:19 PM
>
>There are many solid reasons to learn how to cook, learn how to farm,
>learn how to sew, learn how to build houses, and so on, and these
>reasons are even more apparent now that our nation is in a state of war,
>and the enemy lives amongst us.
>
>When the end of the world comes, brother, the computer geeks who do
>everything on-line (even have conversations) are going to perish. That's
>how it's going to be.
>
>For example, there is a threat that we could lose our suspension bridges
>in California. Do you know how dependent our survival is on those
>bridges? If I can't get across the bridge, I can't get to work, I can't
>get to my computer, I can't get my e-mail, I can't have conversations
>with my friends, and I can't do my shopping. I won't be able to get
>money out of the bank. Money won't be worth anything, anyway.
>
>I am going to starve to death.
>
>Don't you see? I don't know how to grow my own food. And all the members
>of that high school program, the Future Farmers of America, the ones I
>laughed at because they seemed awfully proud of their ability to grow
>asparigus, will prosper. THEY are the strong ones. And the football
>jocks, the ones we laughed at because they could lift heavy stuff and
>that's about it, THEY will be our leaders. We will need them, and we
>will have to admit it. We will have to be nice to them.
>
>We need to think "big picture" here. Think organic. When the big bomb
>drops, in whatever form that is, we will have no computers available to
>run our autocross events. We'll need to do everything by hand, including
>the data entry on our cards, much as we do it now.
>
>So, just imagine a period in the semi-distant future, when we no longer
>run our events the "old fashioned way." Imagine autocross events where
>people really don't know how to write their names with a pen.
>
>Tasks that we could once do ourselves now require a computer. Of course,
>you laugh, we could go back to our "old way," the way of the peasants.
>But think about your children. And your children's children. Imagine
>little Tommy Two-Stroke crawling out from his cubicle, saying, "Mommy,
>what's a timing card?"
>
>"Well, Tommy, it's from the days of old. I think I remember Gramma
>telling me something about them. You had to write using something called
>a pen, a long, tubular like device, and when you put it down on paper, a
>color came out."
>
>"Mommy, what's a 'paper'?"
>
>"Well, I'm trying to explain honey. Things were a lot more simple back
>then. You could buy your food in a supermarket, a large building, and
>you could hold the food in your hands. Well, anyway, back then, they
>could autocross, and they didn't need computers!"
>
>"Wow, Mommy, were they magic?"
>
>Katie Kelly
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