Michael Gurstein wrote:
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> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:50:07 -0400
> From: Mukul Ranjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: A Seedy Business
>
> Dear List Members,
>
> I came across this story in Mother Jones and thouhgt it might be of
> interest to the list. The text is also available at:
>
> http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/broydo.html
>
> Mukul Ranjan, Ph.D.
> National Insitutes of Health
> _____________________________________________________
> A Seedy Business
>
> A new "terminator" technology will make crops sterile and force farmers to
> buy seeds more often-so why did the USDA invent it? Plus: USDA Inc.: When
> public research goes corporate
[snip]
It seems to me that on one of these mailing lists a couple months
ago, we were talking about Garrett Hardin's classic article:
"The Tragedy of the Commons".
I guess we were all barking up the wrong tree: Soon there will
be *no* commons left to exploit *or* to preserve -- and this may
not (silly Hardin!) be an inadvertant byproduct of spastic
twitches of The Invisible Hand, but rather the fulfillment of
a government RFP --> Sophocles' "...Clear intelligence, force
beyond all measure... fate of man working both good and
evil..." in action! Husserl had such quaint and petty
aspirations for scientific humanity!
Who will the government give or sell or lease our "air rights" to?
Maybe that's why we have all the fossil fuel power plants,
automobiles, etc.: to transform the earth's atmosphere into
something unbreathable as a precondition for Multinational
Corporation being able to start marketing breathable air.
(It is not a sign of mental disorder to be
suspicious in a dangerous situation.)
\brad mccormick
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Everyman (woman, child) is a judge of the world.
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