Message-ID: <1h9$cDA0IbkzEwhN@entebbe.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 18:32:36 +0100 From: cherbert <mailto:cherbert@ENTEBBE.DEMON.CO.UK> Subject: Re: "We" don't exist. I do. You may. To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Hi Wilbur,I cannot agree with the views you espouse here, but thank you for sharing them with me
cherbert
>If you accept the idea of Individual Empowerment, then you wouldn't say
>that they are exploiting labor. Labor, believe it or not, is made up of
>people, and those people have the right to decide if they want to work with
>a particular company or not.
>
>I believe that you are entirely mistaken. The treatment of the Germans
>after World War I was done "for the greater good" and caused the German
>people to not be able to feed their children, which in turn lead to a
>country looking for a saviour. Responsibility belongs with the individual,
>not with the pretend "collective conciousness" which is actually nothing
>but a collection of individuals.
>And where do you think that the culture came from in the first place?
>Humans haven't always existed on this planet.
>
>There are no "facts" that prove that we should all be classified as a
>single statistical norm. While it's popular to assume that there is some
>archetype for "human" the reality is that we are 4 Billion different
>individual beings, with different ideas, feelings, thoughts, desires,
>aspirations, and even basic languages. We are not the same, we are not all
>"human". Indeed, "human" doesn't even have meaning in many languages.