> Let's see if I can cheer you up -- this a way
Look, for the last time, I AM cheerful but if you keep telling me I'm not, I may
change.
>
> Assume
> for a second that you are wrong and it isn't too late
This is the kind of thing which makes me fall over laughing. The denialism of
so-called 'marxists' who are supposed to understand what's going on still astonishes
me. Assume it's not too late to find that the moon is made of green cheese, or that
fusion energy has a future, or that Montana doesn't burn like everywhere else and
that you can save yourself, or just a part of it, without at the same time saving
everything. Go ahead, assume whatever you like if it makes you feel better. I don't
give a damn, just do it.
Your 'argument' has 2 parts (a) people have cried wolf before but nothing ever
happened and (b) anyway something will turn up.
But (a) is irrelevant because we have never been in this situation before. If you
don't know that now, after participating in these discussions, and watching tv, and
watching it rain etc, then I can't help you. (b) 'something will turn up' is
technological micawberism and that is just what got us into this mess in the first
place. It also suggests political passivity + blind faith in capitalism. Actually,
all that can possibly turn up technology-wise is mass extermination. That is after
all one sure way to solve the main problem, ie, too many humans at given
resource-use levels.
If you want to campaign against racism, that's fine by me, too. Do whatever you
like, no-one's watching.
Mark
--
> that we even triumph sometime in the near future and
> somehow solve the oil and warming crises. How will
> that help the billions who have already died in misery?
>
> Why should we have any more concern for our great-
> great-grandchildren than for our great-great grand-
> fathers? But we struggle nevertheless do we not?
>
> There is enormous cheer to be found in Epicurus'
> pessimism.
>
> Carrol
>
>
>
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