RE: WARNING: LONG, On Topic in the "Strategic" Sense

["Lynn Hauka" <lynn@evening-star.com>]

Well, Laura, you said it way better than I could so I'll just quietly go
erase the original email I was working on ;-)

Greg, in the interest of opening one's mind, perhaps you would bend so far
as to read one or two works by a Canadian author Linda McQuaig. The two
books that come to my mind are The Cult of Impotence: Selling the Myth of
Powerlessness in the Global Economy (published in 98) and The Wealthy
Banker's Wife. She's written others but I've not read them. You can find
more information at

http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/apr98/04_25_006.html
http://www.ionline.net/~activist/Columns/950531.html

And in my open attempt to not merely present one side of my argument, I give
you the opinions of Conrad Black, a man whom I suspect would become your own
High Priest, or at least someone to natter with at cocktail time ;-)

http://www.blackenvy.com/pages/src_K41.htm

People matter, Greg. All people. The economy used to serve society. Now we,
as a society, somehow have become the servants, and the almighty buck is our
master. What madness, to have an economy that depends utterly on continuous
growth instead of some kind of sustainability.

Lynn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: noprivacy@essential.org [mailto:noprivacy@essential.org]On Behalf
> Of Laura Walker
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 1:11 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list NOPRIVACY
> Subject: Re: WARNING: LONG, On Topic in the "Strategic" Sense
>
>
> Aum to the High Priest Peisert...
>
> The only difference between the rhetoric you espouse (and print
> pages of for
> the rest of us to swallow) is the party line you have chosen.  You are no
> different from any Democrat, Republican or any other politically
> affiliated
> individual, nor do your ideas smack of anything that even resembles NEW
> solutions to our problems.  These are hackneyed, overused, simplistic
> "intellectual" rhetoricisms that do nothing to solve the problems.  Your
> "ideas" are just as grounded in tired phrases and worn-out mantras as many
> of our current political leaders' are.