Message-ID: <970105200428_1957189240@emout15.mail.aol.com> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 20:04:29 -0500 From: mailto:EUNSteve@AOL.COM> Subject: Re: THE INDUSTRIAL RELIGION To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Dr. Hanson,When you read Vice President's Gore passionate if breathy book on the environment, do you not feel you are reading the words of someone who understands what you are talking about, shares your concern--and does not believe in THE INDUSTRIAL RELIGION?
Would you maintain that Bill Clinton is an industrial religous believer?
If these "leaders" understand as clearly as you and I do the problems of growth; if such advisers as Robert Reich of Harvard are as knowledgeable and as honorable as you or me--what's the problem?
Who are the indifferent, ignorant believers and evangelists for the industrial religion?
Where are the books and articles and tv programs that incite the average American to want more and more growth?
Who is the voice, the prophet of the industrial religion, and how do we shut him/her up?
Or have we, as Pogo, met the enemy, and they is us?
Me.
I have up to this point refused to turn off my air conditioner and bicycle to work.
I am not a believer in growth or industrialism. I just want a job, a raise, a car that is 19.5 feet long, frozen foods, hair spray, and food in tin cans that are not biodegradable.
I am the enemy.
And you.
Right?
Steve Eskow