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        I'm talking about.  Shit.  Deodorant sprays and electric can openers.
        Headache pills and beer cans and aerosol sprays and a ton and a half
        of Detroit or Tokyo iron that in five  years  really  will  be  shit.
        Don't you see it?  They say it's more and more for everyone but what
        it is, really, we're drowning in our own shit."
             "Man the pumps," she said laughing.
             "Okay.  But  do  you  know who it is that should be manning the
        pumps?   Not the corporations.   Not the govenment.  Not even the en-
        vironmentalists.  It's up to us.  Us.   The guys in the white shirts 
        who sit down at our computer terminals with our  handbooks  and  our
        scratch pads and keep the whole mess going."       
             "You mean you think you should all go out on  strike, something
        like that?"
             "No, I  don't  mean  that because that can never happen.  I was
        trained as an engineer and I know how engineers are.  There  are  ex-
        ceptions, sure, but  most  of  us  have  neatly comparted minds with
        watertight  doors  between  them  because we've been taught to solve
        only those problems that we've been programmed to solve.   If I were
        to  go  to  another engineer and tell him what I've just said to you,
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