--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 6/3/05 3:32 PM, lupidus108 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "claudiouk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> 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, > > > > "To remove the splint one must use a needle." It is rather obvious that > > Maharishi is using "ugly" methods to remove the ugly capitalism. > > And the splint/capitalism will have to go because it has proven to be a > > failure for the majority of the people on this planet who are poor, > > starving or dying. > > So for instance, when the TMO bought a large forest in Thailand and chopped > down all the trees to sell the wood for profit, an environmental disaster > for the area, they were somehow using a thorn to remove a thorn. Please > explain to me how this helped the environment. How do I know this happened? > A friend of mine helped purchase the land, and was misinformed about what > would happen to it. He was heartbroken. He showed me photos of the clear-cut > forest and the logs floating downriver.
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