Message-ID: <199701152020.AA01191@mail.crl.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 12:19:18 -0800 From: Gary Berlind <mailto:gberlind@CRL.COM> Subject: Re: Enough! To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
mailto:Michael_O._Patterson@hud.gov wrote:>Everything being said is correct, if only from the viewpoint of the
> person making the statement.
>
> Capitalism creates wealth and misery, and then again so does
> socialism. The ecosystem is falling apart, despite the best
> intentions of all. I don't wonder why things are falling apart any
> more, I wonder what's holding them together.
>
> I think it was Einstein who said that problems can't be solved at
> the level they were created at, that you have to go to a new level
> of order.
>
> I'm on this listserver to get practical ideas I can apply. This
> debate is absolutely useless to me, and I bulk erase messages on it
> without reading them. To quote Sun Bear, "If your philosophy won't
> grow corn, we aren't interested". This debate is rather like the
> debates on how many angels could stand on the head of a pin.
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Gary Berlind says:
I think this debate, rather than being useless, demonstrates clearly that Einstein was RIGHT!!!! So why don't we try moving to a higher order? I think that's what us neo-Luddites are trying to say!!!!
It often seems to me that the people out there pushing "development as usual" are like addicts, who think "only one more hit, only one more high, only one more hunk of development is necessary to solve the problem, and then we can stop the pattern, after this one last fix."
Einstein was a pretty smart guy, remember?
Gary Berlind