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• My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is, by Sir Edward Dyer,
  
• Sestina of the Tramp-Royal  and Epitaphs of the War by Rudyard Kipling,
  
• Eternity , Auguries of Innocence , The Chapel, The Tiger and The Angel by William Blake,
  
• Desire by Sir Philip Sidney,
  
• They That Have Power to Hurt, The Quality of Mercy, No More Be Grieved, My Mistress' Eyes, To Be or Not To Be by William Shakespeare,
  
• Know Then Thyself, A Little Learning, The Coxcomb Bird, Rape of The Lock , and The Toillet by Alexander Pope,
  
• And Yet the Books by Czeslaw Milosz
  
• The Heavy Bear by Delmore Schwartz
  
• Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelly
  
• Epigram by Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
  
• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost,
  
• My Last Duchess by Robert Browning,
  
• Portrait of The Artist as a Prematurely Old Man by Ogden Nash,
  
• When I Was One-and-Twenty by A.E. Housman,
  
• A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Alan Poe
  
• What Lips My Lips Have Kissed by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  
• The Age of Wisdom by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
• The Flea and Song by John Donne
  
• To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
  
• My Love In Her Attire - Anonymous
  
• To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick

• The Eagles: Take It Easy, One of These Nights, Sad Cafe, Hotel California, Fast Lane;
  
• Fleetwood Mac: Dreams; Don't Stop, Gold Dust Woman;
  
• Steely Dan: Hey Nineteen, Black Friday; 
  
• Rolling Stones: Satisfaction, Mother's Little Helper; 
  
• Jefferson Airplane: Revolution, Crown of Creation, Tell Me Sweet Lies
  
• Billy Joel: Piano Man, Big Shot 
  
• Escape Club: Wild, Wild West;, 
  
• INXS: Devil Inside,; 
  
• Nu Shooz, 
  
• Jackson Browne: The Pretender; 
  
• Paul Simon: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Slip Sliding Away; Feeling Groovy (59th Street Bridge Song);
  
• Pete Townscend: Blood, Face the Face
  
• Simon & Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence
  
• Talking Heads: Burning Down the House
  
• Leonard Skinard: Smell that Smell
  
• Ringo Starr: No, No, Song;
  
• Julie Brown: Big and Stupid
  
• Arlo Guthrie: Alice's  Restaurant, Los Angeles,
  
• Grateful Dead: Friend of the Devil
  
• ZZ Top: Pressure, Sharp Dressed Man, Legs, 

Happiness is Enjoying the Moderate Life.
Economics is The Conservation of Labor.
Wealth is Happiness and Economics.

Of what we consume, over 90% is spit out by factories so fast it's a blur going by as a few tech's hope something will break the boredom and keep their jobs secure. Even farms are massive automated factories. These factories create the wealth we consume. They are connected together by a network of roads, rails, and air routes where, again, the very few provide the labor needed to transport what the whole human race consumes. Robotics and computers are taking over all labor and paperwork and could do it sooner, if the world willed it. Yet we have a world economy that only sputters along with billions in perpetual poverty, poverty decreed as necessary by the world bank and our nations' banks.

Government is the cause and cure. Lack of planning, energy waste, the automobile, traumatization of the young, and self-destructive economic beliefs are the problems. If we designed cities to minimize travel costs and provide superior service, you would eliminate over 20% of the time you NEED to work, 10% for commuting and 10% for shopping for yourself. If we eliminate office space construction, maintenance, etc., you pick up another 20%. If home offices and home delivery were easy; if you knew you, the spouse, and/ or the kids would get where and when you like and be supervised by you on closed circuit TV if you want , would you even want a car? ... your very own suicide machine, expensive to buy and maintain, that makes you prey to bankers, police, lawyers, insurance agents, mechanics, painters, oil cartels, etc.?

f we fully utilize heat now wasted in the production of electricity or goods for other manufacturing, absorption refrigeration (refrigeration from heat like in an RV), heating water and buildings, etc., we eliminate another 20% of the time you need to work. If we eliminate interest, lawyers, and tax accounting while making the government not waste our time to cut it costs, we eliminate another 10% of what we have to do for a net savings of 70% of our time, probably more!

Walden 3 is a utopian love story on how to turn a prison into a city state where luxury abounds. Four ordinary people and a robot battle reactionary forces, becoming heroes, finding happiness by using Dr. Albert Ellis' scientific stoicism, REBT (see also Rational-Emotive-Behaviorism Theory). The city, New Georgia, LLC.,  for a few thousand dollars a year takes prisoners and rehabilitates him/her. They use voluntary behaviorism supported by total electronic recording of all space and all financial transactions with instant justice, without medieval punishments or 20th century prison/torture cells. They sell the prisoners on the system because the exit strategy is a full life with a job for life. They effectively and economically deter and correct destructive behavior in a secure, happy environment with motivation and plenty for all.

Government run, engineered cities and industries provide a cradle-to-grave social system with luxury for all. Since competition between companies in basic commodities and services is of little value and can cause great dislocations and degradation of service when one competitor collapses or one takes over, the city runs electricity generation, sewer, roads, communications, and mass transportation. These same industries reach great service levels due to the incentives to management based on a composite of labor savings and customer satisfaction -- rather than merely the most money "earned". People rate each service (a type of voting) affecting them, setting part of the pay of that service's personnel; thereby  controlling those who serve them.

Entrepreneurs are encouraged. Free enterprise that does not warp society is welcomed. So are artists. None depend on the whim of the rich nor fear the banker's knock on their door.

We have the technology. We have the resources. The math is easy; most of what the vast majority or people do today has nothing to do with what we actually consume. We can become entrepreneurs, craftsman, arts, entertainers, scientists, whatever......, when we as a society decide it is time!

What kind of future do you want? One of "hard work" and sacrifices that "teach" us to be noble? It hasn't so far. Or would you rather have employers begging for employees and making sacrifices to get you to go to work? Things can always be better - or declared great today.

Don't quit because this has been proven to work.

YOU WILL BECOME Happy!