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Monday, July 27. 2009

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In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has - to put it mildly - a fatal design flaw.


Frank Zappa (h/t, Samiz)

Posted by The Barrister in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 11:30 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Had a wife who pronounced that word MINE.

She couldsn't rap her mind around any thing approaching shared or community property.

After she stole stuff, she kept all of her MINE stored in various storage rentals about town.

She didn't play well with other people's children, either.
#1 Leag on 2009-07-27 11:46 (Reply)
Frank Zappa liked to abuse dolls on stage back in the sixties but the one he tore the limbs from the night I witnessed the act was probably one of his mines.
#2 Leag on 2009-07-27 11:56 (Reply)
It's hard to learn to say "yours" or even "ours" if you don't know what "mine" means.
#3 Texan99 on 2009-07-27 12:43 (Reply)
I have to admit I wouldn't have expected this from Frank Zappa. The basic liberty is personal freedom; I own myself and make my own decisions. The second basic liberty is ownership: what I make or earn, I own. I may keep or dispose it as I choose. Those who don't "own" their labor, their property, their homes, their television sets -- they are subjects or servants, not citizens. It doesn't matter how much their masters let them have, they are not citizens.
By the way, if the government compels you to purchase what you do not want, you are also a subject or a servant. Taxes for policies you don't support are a different subject.
#4 Geoff on 2009-07-27 12:49 (Reply)
Never liked Zappa's music but this changed my view of Zappa himself:

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."

Pretty good for a hairy hippie freak.
#5 Indigo Red (Link) on 2009-07-27 16:19 (Reply)
They were only in it for the money.

The Mothers
#5.1 ron on 2009-07-27 22:13 (Reply)

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