At 03:16 PM 2/21/01 -0000, you wrote:
>> I fear we have a bigger problem than just capitalism (yes, I said
>> *just* capitalism!).
>
>I'm inclined to agree with this, and also and for the same reason to take
>issue with Stan's defence of the Left. I don't think the arguments assembled
>on the CrashList website are new or original. You can find the same kind of
>doominess in old Marx himself, in fact. I guess it's just human nature not to
>want to face inclement truths. Whatever the reason, people don't get it or
>don't want to get it. I remember reading about global warming, melting ice
>caps and the impossibility of China industrialising when I was a student in
>1969. It just isn't news any more. I remember Susan Sontag saying it way back
>then, before she joined the Repugs or whatever. People have a capacity for
>self-deception limited only by the desire to be comfortable and homeostatic,
>ie, there is no limit.
>
>And given the scale of the problem of ecocide it's not JUST capitalism,
>either, as Julien says, it IS a matter of human nature however defined or
>socially determined that is. We have evolved to maximise our niche and unless
>our species re-evolves pretty damn quick we'll maximise ourselves out of
>existence.
>
>Mark
My question remains. It's one that's been asked before. What is to be done?
Stan
"...all truly great scientific abstractions are both universal and simple.
They are simple not because they explain so little but because they explain
so much. Generality does not arise because an abstraction represents
everything that could possible happen, but because it remains valid no
matter what happens."
Alan Freeman
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