Eva wrote:
However I get upset by the attitude below: "the poor will be always
with us". Yes, because you do not look further than the present
system, that you admit has no solutions.
I have been sitting on this message for a week trying to decide the level
of involvement I wanted to invest in responding. First, let me state that
I am in favour of the tone of Eva's post. There is a tacit agreement
throughout government and academia that the poor will always be with us and
it comes out of the total acceptance of the concept of "the economy" which
is based on the concept of "profit" which by it's very nature implies that
some will gain while others lose. It is the acceptance of this as an
unchangeable truth that limits us from discussing other possibilities and
it is the vested interest of those who have gained that provides the energy
and commitment to maintain the present system.
However the underlying job is to change this outdated, chaotic,
uncontrollable anti-human system.
I agree with all these adjectives and yes, somewhere, sometime in the next
year, 10 years or 500 years, this system will be outlawed on it's
inhumanity and built in predisposition towards injustice. Just as the
system of torturing heretics to save them was eventually revealed as good
goals with wrong methods. So Eva, keep up the "voice in the wilderness"
posts, change will not come from within - only new ways to maintain the
existing structure. Evolution and revolution or disaster will probably be
the methodology of change and in the fore-time, the thinkers will post
their lonely positions.
Respectfully,
Thomas Lunde
