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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 10:02:10 +0000
From: James Heartfield <James-AT-heartfield.demon.co.uk>
Subject: M-TH: Against Nature


Mark is right that I did find it somewhat tiring and repetetive to
defend such 'extraordinary' views as those that the people of the third
world deserved as high a living standard as those in the first, and,
that the barrier to progress is capitalist social organisation, not
natural limits. I thought also that the other subscribers to the list
might have found that a bit boring, too. I intend no disrespect to MI
when I say that the audience for a Channel 4 documentary is a somewhat
wider arena in which to challenge Green conservatism.

I would be happy to defend any argument made in that excellent
programme, if you wish to mail me direct. I wonder what it is that you
disagreed with? The suggestion that Indian villagers' lives would be
improved by piped and treated drinking water, or by electricity? Do you
deny that the worship of nature was a central part of Nazi ideology?

It is pointed that in the liberal press here, a concerted campaign was
initiated against the documentary Against Nature before it had even been
aired. The Guardian on Monday printed not one but two articles
denouncing the programme as 'racist'. This kind of knee-jerk liberal
spasm is designed to forestall any serious discussion of the issues.
Readers must have wondered if they were watching the same programme,
since its central message was that the people of the third world deserve
better, and that the West should not be allowed to impose its agenda of
frustrating third world development.

Fraternally
-- 
James Heartfield


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