There are dangers there. Take these seven factors and turn them around. Some of them will not sound so pleasing once you get under the surface and down to the "WHY" the Lt. Cln. addresses.
A highly effective society could also emplode with tyrany. What kind of life are we willing to have where we work all the time and never play. What happens when those at the top realize that they can tap and use these 7 failures to their advantage? What happens when all of the -real work- is farmed out to Indea, China, and Mexico? Where will the middle income family be to buy all those electronics and software? If all tangible goods are produced in other countries, how will the Americans afford to buy all that stuff? They Won't but that wont matter to the most wealthy becouse they don't care who buys the goods, just as long as someone does. You may complain and contradict this by saying that it is just like the issue with women entering the workforce. I agree that any subjugation of any group is wrong. And on principle I agree that women should be, and inherently are, equal. However, the emergant property is very troubeling. I do not wish to be 70 and working long hours every day. What kind of life is it where you get out of bed go to work, leave work, come home and go directly to bed? Many do that now, and are proud of it. They are nothing but drones doing the bidding of those who spend most of their day on the gulf course. I look at it and one word comes to mind. That word is "slavery". No thanks! That is NOT Life or Librity, and certainly NOT the persuit of happyness. And due to the very fact taht education in these other places simply is not what it is in the US, you get a lower quality product. You get product that fall apart, or do not work as designed. Or worse only product that has a complexity low enough to be built in a waterfall fasion rather than thought through and perfected. While I personaly agree with the Cln. on every one of the 7 points, the underlying issue (the 8th habit) is much much more troubeling. The 8th habit is [ Intrest by society for the individual to maintain a high quality of life.]. --- Chad Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This paper was written 5 years ago.... > > The Seven Factors > These key "failure factors" are: > Restrictions on the free flow of information. > The subjugation of women. > Inability to accept responsibility for individual or collective failure. > The extended family or clan as the basic unit of social organization. > Domination by a restrictive religion. > A low valuation of education. > Low prestige assigned to work. > > > http://denbeste.nu/external/Peters01.html > > > The best quote IMHO: > > "The failure is greater where the avoidance of responsibility is greater. > In > the Middle East and Southwest Asia, oil money has masked cultural, social, > technical, and structural failure for decades. While the military failure > of > the regional states has been obvious, consistent, and undeniable, the > locals > sense--even when they do not fully understand--their noncompetitive status > in other spheres as well. It is hateful and disorienting to them. Only the > twin blessings of Israel and the United States, upon whom Arabs and > Persians > can blame even their most egregious ineptitudes, enable a fly-specked > pretense of cultural viability. " > > > Nerd From Hell > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ===== _________________________________________________ Jan William Coffey _________________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
