Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:27:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Liberal vs. social democracy - Gestell/Gewinnst
From: Henry Sholar <henry-AT-agenceglobal.com>




> From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 03:59:48 +0000
> To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: Re: Liberal vs. social democracy - Gestell/Gewinnst
> 
> Henry Sholar wrote:
> 
>>>> Anthony, you just have to incorporate yourself.
>>>> Lots of ways to avoid taxes as Anthony Crifasi, Inc.
>>> 
>>> Or we can replace the regime with one that will provide more ways for
>>> non-incorporated entities to avoid taxes too. The more such ways, the
>>> farther from being ordered by government Gestell.
>> 
>> I just knew you were going to blame the French.
> 
> I suppose just as "America" can be a representative idea instead of a
> specific country, so can "France."

I suppose it can, but my point was a little less rational, logocentric, and
attuned to theory. It was a more poetic way of saying, "Ah, you fall back
into the neo-con Weltanschauung very cleverly, Anthony."

>But in any case, it is hard to miss the
> striking parallels between the relationship between the power plant and the
> Rhine in Heidegger's example, and the relationship between government and
> its citizens. 

It s very easy to miss that from my perspective, as I don't totalize my
relationship to the state and my citizenship as just taxes.

>We have no alternative but to pay taxes (on pain of jail and
> the siezure of assets), just as the Rhine has no alternative when it is
> dammed up. 

Well, there are a number of other alternatives, starting with avoiding the
money economy.

>Politicians become entrenched and begin to see different groups
> and classes of citizens as standing reserves for tax revenue, ready on call.

Really? So as you see it, the whole of the political system in the US is
just about your taxes?

> The only difference is that we can vote them out (at least in a democracy),
> and even that is possible only once in a while.

I tend to take more of an interactive view of my relationship to my elected
politicians. I like to get in their faces (or mail, or computer screens, or
on their phones...) on a regular basis.

> 
> Blameworthy, oui?

Mais non. 

> 
> Anthony Crifasi
> 
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