G'day Brad, You write: >... and is likely to remain racist for a long time to come--unless >America's left can unify and organize... And woebetide anyone who's depending on that for some justice and welfare, eh? These lists have added to my knowledge, maybe even my wisdom, to a sudden and profound degree (I'm learning to ask the right questions and occasionally answer them, and also that some profound change is both likely and necessary) . But at the price of an abiding sadness (given the way the left tends to exacerbate its individual differences rather than synthesise its arguments collectively, it's likely that the necessary changes aren't the ones that are likely). And you write: >We could keep doing what we have been doing--putting the wrong (or >zero) prices on the environment and on resources. Or we could move to >a centrally-planneed environmental policy of pollution control and >allocation from the center. > >Neither of these alternatives, however, fills me with joy... It's not us pricing the environment inadequately is it? I thought it was supposed to be the hidden hand? How do you get the hidden hand to change its mind? Come to that, how do we get it to put enough buying power into the hands of the poor to ensure that it'll put food in their mouths? You're talking conscious intervention by way of an authority with coercive discretion, aren't you? I think you have been doing this all week (and good on you). Just how democratically constitituted and centralised it is depends - aw shit - on how unified and organised the left is. Oh well, there's always the chance of a charismatic saviour, I s'pose ... Cheers, Rob.
