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on a site for which I've paid ten years in advance, an d will so
become my digital world-to-come.
I think back how Happy and I had been friends in our
preschool development years, during which we lived in the same
neighborhood, thereafter attended the same schools, dressed
similarly, and had the same friends. Love of one's fellow ma n
translated as commitment o f one another's well-being, devotio n
that was more tangible than selfish gratification. The modern
society to which people affiliate is at best ephe meral; a work
place, residential circumstance, mode of tr ansportation, and
etcetera but without stable commitments such as family o r
friends. We have been dehumanized by those who control the
production and distribution of resource s. H. Joe stayed a friend
for life because I never asked him to show-off his talent and
never revealed his secret.
For everybody in the Joe fa mily, command of the spoke n
word was the inherent concern to share the thoughts and express
feeling that enhance t heir mutual involvement in the huma n
experience ; one raised his voice only as a de claration of danger,
never in anger. Time energized the communication such that
when one person addressed the group everyone gave him their
full attention, even the distance of a long oration. Nobody felt
that some aspect of their personal life aggravated the
circumstances to the degree he could cut somebody off in the
middle of a discussion, and criticism was considered as per its
face value. The singular unity was built upon mutual effort to
invigorate and enhance each individual expression as
substantive content included in the family soul, every message
has its significance.
"Fortran" was still the language of computers when Happ y
Joe matriculated his first degree in the field of co mputer
science. The holes he keypunched into cards produced the first
progra ms applied to robotic medical sciences. In those times,
people talked long distance only over land phones connected b y
wires strung around the world, or under the oceans. The only
other means of international correspondence was by mailing
letters to one another that might span a few weeks' time to trave l
from one point to another. People sent letter in order to sustain
sociability with loved ones. H.J., as a skilled practitioner in
Media Paraphernalia, preserved the me mories parents alive in
the electronic presentations able to project their true living
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