All this is a lot to be explained in my view.

The spelling and grammar.....I can't stand when people say: "Hey, where you at!" or "What up, dawg?" with all these slangs and shorten terms and such, it's like they act like they are 2-years-old.

Casino and Gambling can be a dangerous thing and in some area situations, it's illegal. You might either lose all your money that you bet on, or you can get arrested for gambling in an area that's not allowed to be featuring it.

Eating less and exercising more can a good way to stay fit, but at certain times, it can backfire. Healthy foods can also provide a good nutrition, but be warned that if you're not in good shape and eating healthy, but not getting enough exercise, you can still be unhealthy.

Technology's never perfect. It doesn't have eternal life. The LOL and ROFL words are just internet slang for when people laugh. And also, sometimes your internet or phone service can go off, just coming to show that even technology doesn't have a perfect setup. Even electronics can malfunction too.

And uneducated politics. Oh boy, I despise that with a passion. Good examples is when something tragic happens and they want to reach headline news and claim that video games are the reason why it happened, and they end up brainwashing many parents to become overprotective and other concerned adults anyways, and start going into a crazy fit.

All good points to be made. In some cases, it's just a question of where to draw the line. Indeed electronics can malfunction, but society won't go without them. I fear that if I let myself, I'll turn into a pure Neo-Luddite, and live a life as simple as possible.

That may be all the best way to live.

Everything has a plus and minus to it. The minus would obviously be that there would be no modern conviences, or any of that sort of luxury we take for granted. The plus could possibly be that we have a much better work ethic and better patterns of behavior, even if we don't come off as smart as people want us to be,

That's true too. Even back before we had what we have today, there were pluses and minuses. Such as taxes, gas prices, etc.

And many have told me that I'm sorely mistaken to wish for a return to the past because of the minuses that existed back then, especially when you factor in the racism and sexism bits. Blacks used to be slaves until Abraham Lincoln declared them free. Women didn't vote until the 1920s.

Nowadays, I feel, it's going the other way. White men who vote Republican are becoming the minority.

Yeah, it's sad I know.

It's things like that these that in the past have led me to wish for death to overtake me whenever I let the autism kick in and I get really depressed. Mind you, these are not suicidal wishes. I'm not willing to take my own life over anything; it's the most selfish thing one can do. But it's also common knowledge amongst FA's users at this point (or at least those who know me well enough) that I never mean what I say when I am depressed, angry, upset, or ranting about anything. As a result, I made the stupid blind arguments about how better off we were during Sousa's lifestime.

Jack: Use of the English language can sound different depending on regional influences and occupational influences. I'm in the medical industry so for example, if you say you have a headache, then in the diagnosis, we put down cephalalgia. Then you got cases that may be a bit more complex how a few years ago, Asperger's Syndrome was once an official diagnosis but today, it is now considered a casual name for autism as Asperger's and autism technically mean the same thing. Hence in some psychiatric diagnosis today, we just put down autism as the diagnosis. Some doctors also put down 'autism spectrum disorder' too but both autism and ASD are considered official diagnosis as they mean the same exact thing.

Lei: In the Chinese language, the diagnostic names for conditions are also use in conversations outside of the medical environment but that's how our language is set up.

Chuong: I see you mentioned caviar. I like to dip my muzzle in a large bowl of salmon caviar. Its tasty and at least I won't have to worry getting fat off of that.

Luong: *waves finger at me* Even that, you still cannot eat like a glutton. You know better Chuong.

Zachary: Wildcat City has a very long way to go. And Leo, I hate to say this but if my country keeps fearing you like this, its going to be much harder for America to advance and still uphold their constitution. That's why I made philosophy courses mandatory in high school in America so no one graduates as a drone. You can't walk around in public comfortably with your own people afraid of you like this.

Star: That could explain why in Wildcat City, most of our employees from there are humans. This is the first time S4 Corporation has a species discrepancy and we had to have our HR department in our branch office in Wildcat City to find why there's a discrepancy.

Soil: We already convinced people in Wildcat City that our products only serves to increase efficiency in our daily lives and never eliminate or modify traditions there.

Sea: At this rate, there's no way we can convince anyone outside of Wildcat City that the city is not purely Neo-Luddite. Even with people like Christian Geiger and T2 residing there, people still think of the city as Neo-Luddite and ignores things like our business there.

Sky: Mayor Clarkson and the G-52s are on their own in this when it comes to convincing the public that Wildcat City is not purely Neo-Luddite. Wildcat City has lots of room to grow. Even Lebanon and Rugby have lots of room to grow.

Zachary: Everything has room for improvement S4. America was meant to be a progressive nation as well as the land of the free. People must know that progress does not mean living traditions behind but instead, building upon them. My star fort cities and towns are an example of this because the Italians during the medieval age constructed star fort towns and cities to fend off invaders more easily so I built upon their history to improve several American towns and cities. Granted that I did order city walls to be built during my dictatorship because of people like Bendraqi and the Feeder Foxes and I was aware that city walls did not make my people happy. So after my dictatorship, they tore the city walls down but kept the star fort designs. In countries like Kurdistan, Syria, and Iraq, they will continue to have city walls because of ongoing threats there as civilians become more vigilant despite their fellow soldiers and police telling them to leave the battles to them to help increase mission efficiency and reduce casualties.

Leo: According to Zanta, the fear will probably continue forever because of all the bellowing. At the same time, though, people respect me, and I respect them back. In return for their understanding of why I bellowed, I choose to respect what they think, say, and do, as well as willingly teach myself all I can about all the things I stubbornly avoided all those years. We made our mistakes and we learned from them. It's just hard to adjust because it's been the subcultural norm for so darn long, that the rest of the country still expects such behavior out of us. Mind you, the bands don't parade the streets daily anymore so that traffic can flow freer, but that's just one small detail.

Super C: I think you'll get at least a few more furry employees for S4 from Wildcat City, because these ones told me they are willing to compromise, Star. They live in the farm communities, and they are (at last) starting to get a feeling they are falling behind. There's more demand for modern agricultural methods, such as using tractors, and not so much washing and drying the old-fashioned way, or picking everything by hand. This means, Zax, that your company may come into work in our farm communities that are Cat's Granby and Horseshoeville, the latter of which also does the "Wild West on the outside but modern features in certain areas on the inside" thing that Glenn View Springs did until Zachary turned it into a star design.

D.W.: That and the fact they realize you were right about effeciency increasing.

King Leo: Listen to Luong, Chuong, or I will revert to awarding you rifle duty. And just as Leo said, if you did that often, you'd grow bored of it and want the ordinary again.

Leo: Many furries in those 99.99% do live in homes and apartments, and use electricity, refrigerators, and indoor plumbing. They just don't watch television or use the internet on any device that allows you to use the internet. I thought that alone would convince folks that we aren't entirely Neo-Luddite, but it hasn't.

Mayor Clarkson: Also bear in mind some of them got so fed up with this world that they elected to stay in Eterna full-time. They're much happier there.

Leo: And on occasions, so was I.

T2: Ultimately it's all about finding balances, yes. While he does all the simple stuff, bros, I help with the technology.

Christian: And I am proof that there are furries that embrace the modern trends.

David Satterfield: You can sort of say I got stuck in the 80s, though; I still dress like it, and still have the big hair and the loud guitars.

Christian: These days, I am a music producer, though I never gave up playing the guitar. Nathan (Cripto) and I did a duet just recently.

Leo: Did you tear the walls down? GVS hasn't done that yet, but they are working on it now, Jocko tells me. In the end, though, the truth has been said; we just have to find a way to compromise without compromising our morals. There is a plus and minus to everything, after all. I just failed to see the plus, and so did all those furs who followed my example down to the last detail. That wore off eventually, of course, but at the time, you can understand the fear of me doing that to people.

Star: *to Super C* Good. Because I don't want people from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or EEOC for short slamming me questions about the discrepancy of my branch office in WC. Those guys can raise chaos if they see a large company with a huge discrepancy between species and would send in investigators to see why such discrepancies exist. EEOC is also a federal law enforcement agency and they crackdown on workplace discrimination. Federal law enforcement agencies LOVE investigating large companies and type up detailed reports before emailing them to those companies.

Chuong: I could never be bored of eating which is a problem for me. At least there's other activities like the gym. Its good for me to work off the excess energy anyways.

Zachary: *to Leo* What? I thought they tore down the walls at GVS already! I gotta speak to Ryan about this and see why they forgot to tear the walls down in the first place!

Sky: *to Mayor Clarkson* Understand that when we used to be terrorists, we saw Neo-Luddites as our enemies and we often abduct them and reeducate them about why people develop electronics and efficient technologies. Neo-Luddites are generally against electronics and robotics as far as we know. Most at least do not mind modern amenities and plumbing but even that, we used to reeducate as many of those Neo-Luddites to force them out of their thinking and understand that the past comforts that they seek for never existed. They always deny the fact that modern can blend with tradition well. A lot of Asian countries are an example that the old and new can mix well together but then so do the rest of the world.

Sea: There will still be marching bands, singers, traditional artists, and all that. Yet, Neo-Luddites claim that they will be replaced. A lot of the stuff they preach is a bunch of baloney anyways!

Super C: It should help you cut down on that.

Leo: Indeed, Sea; we will never lose our taste for music, no matter what people will do to us.

King Leo: Go to the gym; you'll avoid the temptations and me having to award you rifle duty. It embarasses the lions playing in my Royal Ensemble as well, because they provide the music on orders, since we used music for virtually everything.

Mayor Clarkson: I'd better write that down. *He does so.* Did you say Robert F. Kennedy was quoted saying that? I mean about the past that did not exist.

Leo: I think you got it correct there. In fact, we had the concept of Neo-Luddism all wrong but thought we did it right, and thought of the proper ones as just an extreme version of that.

Sky: Robert F. Kennedy did say something like that. He generally said that the comfortable past we seek for never existed. Some could say that nostalgia is just a form of escapism.

Chuong: I'm not really nostalgic at all since like many Vietnamese, we always look forward to a brighter future for Vietnam as long we do our best to help our fatherland. *to King Leo* And I will too!

Star: Speaking of gyms, those Feeder Foxes have talked about bombing gyms. If they did, they would draw in attention of heroes and terrorists to go after them like a swarm of bees.

Chuong: I usually say like a bunch of piranhas but use whatever comparison you want.

Star: The bees comparison is more appropriate.

Xavier: I love gyms! Only a nutjob would think about targeting them! Oh wait the Feeder Foxes are the nutjobs.

Zax: And I thought Bendraqi was bad! The Feeder Foxes beat him way ahead of that when it comes to insanity. Bendraqi is way too tame compared to them.

Super C: Queen Junira was kind enough to extend her protection over Wildcat City, just like she did later on with GVS. If they tried to bomb my gym, nothing would happen. The bomb would only cause a ton of smoke to block the views of drivers, or make a mushroom cloud, or something, but it would anger the water and earth spirits guarding it on assignment. They'd go after the Feeder Foxes and ensure they both would suffer broken teeth and a broken nose. I'm amazed that hasn't happened yet.

King Leo: I know you will. And I don't blame you for not being nostalgic; your past is too horrible to go back to, that's for certain. We're glad we chose America.

Star: Whoops! I forgot that little fact that Queen Junira sent protection to your city. I never met her in person anyways. But I didn't want her to think of me as bad one bit because of the fact that I once engaged in terrorism to promote and force our green agenda on others.

Chuong: She wouldn't mind as long you are still a hero. She knows this about you and the other former terrorists. *to King Leo* I always thought the past in general was too horrible to go back to anyways.

Zachary: I'd go with Chuong on this one. More than 50 years ago in America, autism was treated as a severe mental illness and those with autism were sent to asylums to be locked up indefinitely without their rights being told to them. In America's past throughout the early and middle 20th century, the country was shrouded behind propaganda and misunderstandings. America wanted to portray herself as a flawless utopian nation but reality started kicking in after the end of the Vietnam War. From there, the Americans saw the flaws that plagued our nation because we neglected them for so long. And it took the late 20th century to the first decade of the 21st century to get us where we are at today. America went through lots of changes and the final blow to most of her social problems were unfortunately my dictatorship. I didn't have a choice but I cannot let my country suffer. So I did what I did though it wasn't always the right thing. I even explained to Zanta why I did the things I did and he understood me. Now, I'm an American soldier and UN1024 and I will stay that way so America will never fall into despair.

Zax: Spoken like a true American!

Leo: Indeed he has; well done, Zachary!

All the problems stem from -in my opinion, that is - that humans are simply... Did not developed since the Bronze Age emotionally and with small, everyday intellect. They are just not going well with themselves and not think forward.

I myself disagree that technology ruins or that politicians are bad and so much agree on grammar... I myself just point out that extremes are always bad. Being a Neo-Luddite is just as bad as pushing on the new brand-new and hyper-complicated devices - same with every political side. Extremes are restricting and dangerous as they are simple enough to make people fooled by them and too much like religion for something that may not be good... The icing is that it bases on human emotions and violence, at least most of the extremes are more an "us or them" mindset.

On grammar - i think it is part laziness and part uncaring, with no time on top. Just basic comprehension would be fine?

On the furry part, I am not sure if you said IC or OOC with Leo... My thoughts stand in any way and i hope the things are going well for this Leo and he won't be such a luddite I fear...

The specieism comments are part of my imaginary world, which is supposed to take place in the real world; thus, Leo is in character and telling the truth when he says he hated all politicians.

Thank you. :3 Then to the character-Leo:
You can hate them but they are there to do things you can not and care not: politics. They are doing decision making and take blame on this... At least most of them. You can hate individuals but hating a group as a whole? That is "us or them" once again, the dangerous extreme.

Ooc now: you share beliefs or just take your own approach and put it to the fictional world? :)

Some beliefs that I share are religious, since my faith is based in Christianity. Other elements are my own beliefs. The whole thing about spelling and grammar, for instance, was my own conclusion.

I meant with the character.

I thought you meant the real me.

I knew those as you wrote your reply. :3

Okay.