There was a time when it was possible to speculate about the shift in society and its distribution of wealth when a majority of the population would be doing TM or a large minority were enlightened - based on spontaneous right action, right being life-enhancing and evolutionary for everyone. Moreover take away the insecure ego and much of the unnecessary consumerism, environmental destruction and compulsive power hoarding, one imagined, might simply give way to concerns for universal well-being, and more successful individual and social action to address that. But then where was the role model for such a transformation to be found? The TMO, MUM, Vedic City? FRom what I read in FFL these provide examples of the WORST kind of capitalism - exploitation of monopoly power, money laundering, proliferation of company names and bank accounts to defraud taxes and innocent investors and doners etc. Moreover you only count for anything if you are a millionaire (eg the story of kids from the Maharishi school on a visit to Holland to see MMY and he only bothered to see the child of a millionaire..). Compared to this Communism, Fascism and Capitalism at their virtuous best would beat MMY's "alternative" any day!
Maybe what MMY has in mind, in place of Capitalism, is a return to Feudalism - with Lords in robes enjoying all the riches they "deserve" and the rest of us "peasants" too ignorant to understand the divine "parental role" of our betters having to content ourselves with the crumbs that come our way via Karmic drafts. --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The > > > > only system that will not have a role in the new economy, to > > > > distribute justly our resources so that all men have at least > > > > will have the basics for survival, will be capitalism. > > > > > > I'm not sure I would go that far. There is nothing inherently > > > wrong with capitalism if it is practiced by those who *also* > > > have a sense of connection and responsibility with regard to > > > their fellow humans. > > > > Thats the real problem. Men of integrity have no say on the > > dealings of ruthless and greedy capitalism. > > Nonsense. All capitalists are human, and thus they have > every say in the world in how they choose to do business. > Most these days just choose to do business in an inhumane > and unethical way. That doesn't mean the problem is with > the system, merely with the people in the system. Put the > same people in a different system and they would be just > as inhumane, unethical, and greedy. The change has to > come on the level of the people, not the system. > > > Any voice protesting will be > > crushed as long as this system survives. > > Nonsense again. That's the "gotta blame somebody" victim > mentality speaking. There are lots of capitalists out > there doing business in an ethical and life-supporting > manner. No one has succeeded in "crushing" them. These > kinds of rhetoric are, in my experience, spouted as an > alternative to actually doing things a different way. > > > Thats why I gather that > > enough is enough; capitalism has outlived itself; leads to > > unstability, suffering and hunger and has to go. Just like > > Maharishi said it would. > > And you're going to replace it with what, exactly? > > *Whatever* you choose to replace it with, if the people > using the system are so out of touch with reality and > eternity and their own humanity to abuse capitalism, > they are certainly going to abuse the new system as > well. The system has not been invented that cannot > be perverted to serve the greedy. > > The problem is not with the system; the problem is to > a larger extent with the people who blame the system > rather than just living their own lives a different way. > Maharishi blames capitalism and then runs an organiz- > ation that is the *epitome* of greedy, uncaring, monop- > olistic capitalism gone wild. It's sheer hypocrisy. > > I say let those who claim to have a Better Idea for how > the world should be run demonstrate that idea by living > it. Until they do, they're just one more set of people > bitching instead of doing anything to change the way > things are. > > Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
