Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:31:29 -0700 From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 9/11 FITZ HUGH LUDLOW Daily Bleed, in full, 45 entries, with 43 links, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0911.htm Short sheets: WRENCH IN THE WORKS DAY. 1812 -- Luddite Potato riot in Nottingham, England. 1885 -- Novelist, poet, essayist D. H. Lawrence lives 1903 -- Frankfort School theorist Theodor Adorno lives 1925 -- IWW marine strike. 1930 -- Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judus is published. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kaporter.htm 1973 -- CIA overthrows democratically elected government of Chile In these difficult times, workers are discovering the secrets of the economy. They're learning it isn't impossible to produce without bosses or supply themselves without merchants. But the workers march without arms, empty-handed, down this freedom road. Over the horizon sail the U.S. warships, preparing to show themselves off the Chilean coast.... --- Eduardo Galleano, Century of the Wind http://spin.com.mx/~hvelarde/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19730911.htm 1987 -- Reggae star Peter Tosh is shot & killed 1990 -- U.S. anthropologist Myma Mack murdered by U.S.-paid Guatemalan military. If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come... when the curves of research & development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology & robotics all converge. Oboy... It is certainly something for all good Luddites to look forward to if, God willing, we should live so long... Meantime...we can take comfort, however minimal & cold, from Lord Byron's mischievously improvised song, As the Liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, & cheaply, with blood, So we, boys, we Will die fighting, or live free, & down with all kings but King Ludd! — Thomas Pynchon, Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?
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