Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:40:24 +0100 From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk> Subject: Re: a question of myths... Hugh No I hadn't heard that saying - sounds deeply like a conservative unthought to me. So am I correct in understanding that the myth you are suggesting will dissapear is that of the 'intellect' and 'rationality and rationalism' ? regards steve hbone wrote: >Steve/Geof/All, > >On a scale of millions of years, species appear and disappear. Industrial >national economies are about 200 years old. Globalization, in the modern >sense, commenced with the dissolution of the USSR. For Marx, it probably >commenced with Britiish colonization and matured when the British dominated >the Globe. If homo-sapiens destroys the environment, species will die. > >People value their freedoms after they have lost them, being conquered by an >enemy nation for example;or being imprisoned for a crime. You've heard the >saying: "A liberal is a >conservative who has just been arrested' a conservative is a liberal who has >just been robbed." > >If one accepts the Spectacle, i.e. Media dominance of minds, as reality >not myth; if one recognizes the power and promise (or threat) of modern >medical science and genetics; and if one acknowledges the inhuman >treatment of other animals, the potential for mind control through current >and future physical devices is real. > >Adherence to the 150 year old dogma of Marx, and reading, re-reading and >quoting post-modernists of the past 30 years, may be a circular road to >nowhere that deepens with >every cycle and will disappear within 200 years, or less. > >The here-and-now: did anyone see the PBS Wide Angle documentary on China? >China is duplicating the social horrors of England' in Marx's lifetime >and those of the U. S. in the latter part of the 19th century. In Chinese >universities, >students choose science over humanities and the arts. In the U.S., the >student trend is opposite. > >Regards, >Hugh > > > > > > >
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