> Straight to Hellhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQwm1v1R-qM
>
> "Straight to Hell" is a song by The Clash, from their album Combat
> Rock. It was released as a double 'A' side single with "Should I Stay
> or Should I Go?" on September 17, 1982 in 12" and 7" vinyl format (the
> 7" vinyl is a picture disc).
>
> The song is a typical Clash condemnation of the wrongs that they saw
> in the world as they wrote the song. The first verse refers to the
> shutting down of steel mills in Northern England and the alienation
> and racism suffered by immigrants despite their attempts to integrate
> into British society. The second verse concerns the abandonment of
> children in Vietnam who were fathered by American soldiers during the
> Vietnam War. The third verse contrasts the American Dream as seen
> through the eyes of an Amerasian child with a dystopian vision of
> American reality. The final verse considers the plight of immigrants
> throughout the world. Due to this difficult subject material, as well
> as the slow, aching beat, the song is one of the most downbeat tracks
> in the Clash's history. ...

>The song is a typical Clash condemnation of the wrongs that they saw
>in the world as they wrote the song.

> In fact, the solutions will probably come from that eschelon of human
> activity atop the pryamids...the one where egalitarians would otherwise
> 'starve' to redistribute their bounties to those near or at the bottom
> of the pyramids to bring about a less disparate spectrum of human
> condition.

> while undermining the very things [at the top] that allow us our
> greatest humanity.

> On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:22:03 -0400, tooly wrote:
>

>> In fact, the solutions will probably come from that eschelon of human
>> activity atop the pryamids...the one where egalitarians would otherwise
>> 'starve' to redistribute their bounties to those near or at the bottom
>> of the pyramids to bring about a less disparate spectrum of human
>> condition.

>
> "Their bounties', please!
>
> Are you so unaware of what the REAL WORLD situation is? The activities of
> the 'top eschelon', as you call them, are looting the oh so lessers in
> this pyramid of yours. How does Enron and this whole sub-prime credit
> situation fit into this 'natural' scheme which we (and you I might add)
> must serve at the risk of defiling your idea of a 'natural pyramid'?
> How is this NOT socialism? How is it that use of public money (socialism)
> is a horror unless it is to save the asses of your tip-tops?
>
> If you see a income bracket as naturally superior and so you as being ...

> I was just watching an interesting 101 science program about the 100
> Greatest Discoveries in chemistry. As one peruses all the people who made
> these discoveries, they would find that these people, as a rule, did not
> come from the underclasses, but were, by and large, people of privilege [in
> relative comparison].

> They would arguably be top pyramid dwellers. They may have been talented to
> gain that privilege...but that is my point...that creme rises to the top;
> the best of what we are will exist there at the top as a rule [and there are
> always exceptions to any rule of course].
>
> Egalitarianism would tend to want to catcall such 'privileged class' as
> elitist...and work to tear it down, so that the underclasses [whomever or
> however they are...essentially the common worker] have more of the economic
> pie.

> On 8 Aug, 13:51, "tooly" bellsouth.net> wrote:
>

>> I was just watching an interesting 101 science program about the 100
>> Greatest Discoveries in chemistry.  As one peruses all the people who made
>> these discoveries, they would find that these people, as a rule, did not
>> come from the underclasses, but were, by and large, people of privilege [in
>> relative comparison].

>
> Because they had the leisure to pursue it as  a hobby in the days
> before government-funded
> research,
>

>> They would arguably be top pyramid dwellers.  They may have been talented to
>> gain that privilege...but that is my point...that creme rises to the top;
>> the best of what we are will exist there at the top as a rule [and there are
>> always exceptions to any rule of course].

>

>> Egalitarianism would tend to want to catcall such 'privileged class' as
>> elitist...and work to tear it down, so that the underclasses [whomever or ...