Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970404162058.0142c9b0@aloha.net> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:20:58 -1000 From: "Jay Hanson mailto:mailto:j@qmail.com" <j@QMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: The System: Inherently Evil!?! To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
At 04:51 PM 4/4/97 -0700, you wrote: snip> > If you've read this far, thanks for your indulgence. Does anyone
> have any more ideas to help us with the overall picture of
> things?
The "evilness" of the "system" is an emergent property of a system where everything is for sale (including you).
Consider an internal memo written former World Bank chief economist, Lawrence Summers. He stated: "I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable...because foregone earnings from increased morbidity" are low. He adds that "the underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted; their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles...." [The Economist, Feb. 8, 1992].
These cold-blooded calculations expose a global system of economic homicide where human lives are viewed only as footnotes to the market.
The solution? Fear.
Jay -- http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/ ------------------------------------------- Pluto (pluoo-toe) noun 1. Roman Mythology. The god of the dead and the ruler of the underworld.
2. American politics. The family of corporations that bought America's political system.