Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970107061501.0081fa80@ilhawaii.net> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 06:15:05 -1000 From: Jay Hanson <mailto:jhanson@ILHAWAII.NET> Subject: Re: Why capitalism is NOT sustainable To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
>Now here's an intersting argument, "indigenous intellectuals." I would assume by
>"intellectual" that you mean educated, and perhaps once educated, these "indigenous
>intellectuals" are able to see through the smoke and mirrors of capitalism and realize
>that the long-term consequences of such capitalism will ultimately destroy their
>culutre, not enhance it as promised by the "preachers." Don't you just hate it when
Capitalism will destroy more than their culture, it will destroy their very lives. My newest essay pinpoints the fatal flaw in capitalism. This it starts:
THE FATAL FREEDOM by Jay Hanson 01/03/97
Exploit: To employ to the greatest possible advantage.
There is now scientific consensus that humanity is "unsustainable," and may have less than 35 years before the "functional integrity" of its life-support system is destroyed.(1) Despite this staggering evidence of its colossal stupidity, humanity remains firmly committed to a paradoxical struggle against itself. Moreover, caught by an insatiable drive for power(2) -- like a school of sharks caught in a feeding frenzy -- humanity resorts to self- deception and is conspicuously unable to rationally question its own premises. In this essay, I endeavor to point out the fatal flaw inherent in capitalism(3): the fatal freedom to exploit the commons.
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The entire essay is archived at: http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/page79.htm I am emailing it to Theodora and will email it to anyone else who asks.
Jay