Understanding history is never boring. The understanding should be used on current and future situations and action to achieve a better world. It seems you are reacting to the lack of application of understanding. Buddy > Message: 20 > Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 00:10:16 +1100 > From: Rob Schaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [CrashList] Zzzzzz > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > G'day all, > > Indignant sermon alert. > > Why, oh why, does every list with a couple of lefties on it have to talk about > Stalin? > > We have a US, illicitly ruled by oil interests, building ever larger consumer > vehicles, opposing even modest 'greenhouse' amelioration policies, opposing > any argument that at least some things in this world need more rational > treatment than 'market forces' can deliver, strategically tenable only as an > all-powerful military machine, on the brink of losing its > world-system-sustaining capacity to import products from a plethora of > economies that would collapse should the giant maw ever close - on the brink, > indeed, of an accumulation crisis that could spark a rolling global credit crunch. > > We have scientifically proven global warming dynamics that are already > manifesting in unprecedented melts and a concatenation of disastrous weather > phenomena. We have overwhelming and widely remarked expert calls for the > urgent introduction of new energy regimes, and a serious debate as to the > capacity of 'markets' to bring that about. We have a global mood of > questioning received truths and reappraising ends and means and the very > structure of power that has so long had the world in thrall. > > We have crises in protein production - no fish in the sea and tainted ones in > the fish-farms - and perhaps an agriculture system no longer capable of > guaranteeing good protein to hungry mouths, but fully capable of keeping > farmers in poor countries in poverty. We have a crisis in the extension of > artificial monopoly rights to the field of medicine production - where private > interests concerning often publicly developed medicines are trumping the lives > and livelihoods of hundreds of millions. > > Oh, and enormous countries like Indonesia, Turkey and Argentina look on the > precipice of civil trauma and famine-inducing economic crises ... China's > pulling back from the brink of full capitalist integration ... and just wait > until Japan's flash new PM gets in and opens the Pandora's Box of its finance > sector ... > > And we've got to sit and listen to arguments about stuff that was history > before most of us were born, concerning individuals and ideologies that have > nothing to contribute, either to our environmental problems or to the need to > give democratic voice to the billions who are so much more productive and > flexible than the creaking old institutions which got us here. > > Stuff's happening out there, comrades! We're living in interesting times! > And I humbly (nah, stridently) submit we'd be better employed trying to work > out what the constraints and opportunities are in this cataclysmic becoming > than we are looking to comparisons between a dead mad tyrant and a dissolved > and hopeless old organisation. Even the debate on relatively recent, and just > possibly relevant, stuff to do with Milo and NATO is carefully designed to > sustain heat at the expense of light. > > I mean, this stuff just ain't useless, it's BORING. > > Best to all, > Rob. > > > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > CrashList Website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base > > > End of CrashList Digest_______________________________________________ > CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
