Serendipitous

Recently I started using an Alphasmart Neo. Today I wondered if the rechargeable battery-packs are still available; my search brought me to Reddit and then this page.

The Neo is obsolete but still has plenty of fans (like me). It automatically saves every keystroke to non-volatile memory. Reddit user 'ZuffsStuff' says: 'I got a Neo2 last week and just got the USB cable today. The first four files are leftover from previous owners (who knows who wrote them?). I thought it would be a shame to delete them forever, mundane as some of their contents are. So here they are.'

The text he/she found in File 2 runs as follows:

Left wings and right wings still belong to the same beast. That two headed bird. You've seen it before, so many times. Just look around and notice the duality. Never plurality. Always one side against the other. Heroes and enemies. Profit and power through eternal chaos. Those who know stay tucked safely and securely in the center of the mess. Those who don't know pick a side and throw their life force away, fighting for ideals and opinions that are never one-sided. Short-sighted are those fools. And the rulers always stay one step ahead by concocting new things for the peons to fight over. What's your favorite sports team? Are you a democrat or republican? Are you pro-life or pro-choice? Who the hell cares... We lose sight of what really matters when we fight over inconsequential labels and alliances. What about focusing on health, happiness and prosperity by sharing and caring for all. What about an ethos of "do no harm" and everything else is fine and dandy. What about stopping the fighting? What about bringing down the duality and replacing it with broad-minded plurality? Treating all peoples and ideals as equal. We must learn to swallow tradition and swallow our pride. Look how our forefathers plot in secret from beyond the grave, concocting their elaborate schemes of nothingness from their stone fortresses of cowardice and nepotism. We must move forward and not dwell on the way things have been. For we are still living in an era of kings and slaves. Only the kings conspire in secret, while the slaves fight publicly. Until the slaves see the maze laid by the secret kings, the never-ending battles of duality, they shall remain slaves. And the bird will flap its wings faster and faster. The left wing then the right wing. The two heads forever snapping at one another while the world weeps.

I thinks this bears repeating, especially now.