--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], tartbrain <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > I am certainly less impressed with this guy after this clip. > > He is advocating bringing motherhood, fatherhood and domestic > > life into the market economy -- to monetize it. Aside from > > being quite anti-humanistic, making the more precious and > > profound things in life to be part of the crass market > > economy, he seems oblivious to questions of implementation, > > incentives, abuse. Glib and fuzzy minded he is, thus far. > > Probably not a great idea to pass judgment on the basis > of clips from TV interviews. He's talking about really > complicated stuff, and you just can't expect that kind of > detailed analysis in such a context.
I agree. And shows like Colbert are not the place for deep, sustained analysis -- and Patel did get one point across -- the $200 hamburger -- which is possibly the most you can do when caught in the Colbert jagurnaught roller coaster. (I think Colbert is great, and he brings out great points in satire -- but its not Charlie Rose.) > Could well be he's just as glib and fuzzy-minded in his > books and papers, of course. But one perhaps ought to take > a look. I will. Thanks. > Here's a list of his papers: > > http://rajpatel.org/academic/ > > Here's one from that list on food sovereignty, the same > topic as in the clip (I haven't read it): > > http://rajpatel.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Feminist.pdf > > Here's one on the World Bank: > > http://rajpatel.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/actionaid.pdf >
