I thought we already were under WTF.... Maybe I was just listening to
congress.:-[
On 3/23/2011 8:05 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> Bob,
>
>
> I am familiar with the term 'balkanized.' It seems to be a new
> favorite of
> the marketing types, joining perennial favorites 'paradigm shift' and
> 'win-win.' It must have been Word of the Day in USA Today recently.
>
> Anyway, I have carefully considered your argument and concluded you are
> entirely correct. In fact, your argument is so compelling and
> persuasive I
> believe it must be applied across-the-board. There is simply no need
> for all
> the contentious and redundant city, county, state and national
> governments.
> It would make so much more sense to have only one central government. It
> would be called the 'World Tranquility Federation'--'WTF' for short--to
> reflect the peace and harmony that will be brought about once we all
> cease to
> (occasionally) disagree and go our own ways. The obvious choice for the
> capitol of the new government is Beijing, since we all know how good the
> Chinese are at acquiring, hoarding and allocating resources. Plus, they
> already have 'debalkanization' down (except for that Taiwan nuisance,
> which
> will be dealt with forthwith). We will all start our days with a
> Pledge of
> Allegiance to WTF.
>
> We will, of course, have no need for more than one religion. Our
> beliefs will
> be given to us by the representatives of the WTF, the Scions of
> Brotherhood
> (SOBs). Also, there will be no need for such a variety of sports and
> teams
> (although I haven't figured out how this will work with only one
> 'basefoothockaball' team).
>
> We can see this happening already in our telecommunications industry,
> where
> the customers of T-Mobile are ecstatic over their debalkanization into
> AT&T--good ol' Ma Bell--because free choice and competition is just so
> messy
> (and hurts profits).
>
> If you choose to go your own rebellious ways your mandatory daily dose of
> Prozac will be increased. If you still fail to conform you will be
> exiled
> to--where else?--the Balkans.
>
>
> bs
>
>
> On 3/22/2011 2:59 PM, R. Cobb wrote:
>> When I read this post I was reminded of the term, balkanized: to divide
>> (groups, areas, etc.) into contending and usually ineffectual factions
>> (from Dictionary.com).
> < passionate appeal for Unified Healey Club and lament it
> ain't-gonna-happen
> removed>
>
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