Re: Re: Re: Re: suburbia

[Ken Hanly]

So do you have some good comparative statistics re life expectancy,
stillbirths, etc. in traditional versus "modern" societies.
And do you think that we should not violently reconstruct traditional
societies by banning such practices as binding women's feet,
clitoral mutilation, widows joyously throwing themselves on hubbies funeral
pyre  etc.etc.etc.

     Cheers, Ken Hanly


----- Original Message -----
From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:14213] Re: Re: Re: suburbia


> >Clearly you're suffering from malignant alienation. We need to reduce
> >the human population by 90% and all get back to the land, tilling the
> >soil from dawn to dusk, literacy a fading memory, and antibiotics
> >too. Backbreaking work and short lives, but at least we'd be rooted
> >in soil and place.
> >
> >Doug
>
> Antibiotics? In fact most diseases that antibiotics were designed to
combat
> were brought on by the kind of violent and senseless reconstruction of
> traditional societies where illnesses such as dysentery were rare.
>
> Louis Proyect
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