Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 15:21:24 -0600
From: Bruce Hagood <hagood-AT-ro.com>
Subject: Re: Gulit as symbolic mediator


What city/region did this occur in?   Sorry to hear about it.

   BH.

Charles Gavette wrote:

> When capitalism introduces lack, such as in the recently introduced lack
> at a local food kitchen, there is plenty of speculative potential: Empty
> food pantry shelves during the most severe winter storm to hit the
> region. The reason is that the distributors are on vacation. Rather than
> a stand-in crew for ailementary tracts that do not take a vacation, the
> system introduces lack, as big and bold as you please. When questioned
> about it, the person in charge said that I should be "..thankful for all
> of the other days the food gets served." Notice that this stock reply is
> designed to trigger either resentement or guilt. Guilt if you are
> stupid, resentement if you are a bit smarter than stupid. But if a panic
> ever struck en force, grocery store shelves could be stripped bare in a
> few hours. So, introduce lack and potentiate feelings of guilt(from the
> more gullible) or feelings of resentement coupled to hunger. When
> Cinggis Khan surrounded a Chinese city, the Khan's message to them was:
> "Join us or eat your children." Jack-booted super-ego grocery cops are
> installed strategically within the system.
>
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