Dear Friends, all,
I snip then comment
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>From: Bob Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Cure for the cancer of capitalism (Korten)
>Date: Mon, Oct 4, 1999, 11:27 pm
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> Over the nearly 600 years since the onset of the Commercial Revolution,
> we have as a species learned a great deal about the making of money and
> we have created powerful institutions and technologies dedicated to its
> accumulation.
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> But in our quest for money, we forgot how to live.
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David Korten's contributions are excellent, and we can help his analysis
forward.
It is not clear that each generation opts to go on a "quest for money."
Rather, each finds itself born into an economic system bequeathed by its
parents (and one which they, largely also, had 'laid upon them.')
I see capitalism as a systems fault.
The fault is, firstly, philosophical:
€ the belief that anything (Marx' 'means of production - land, money,
knowledge found in productive facilities) *can* be owned.
[ This is, palpably, is non-sense.]
Secondly, that those owned resources can be:
€ used for personal benefit (sic)
[ Rather than for the commonweal (and within a care-full stewardship of
the planet.) ]
These thoughts, historically, have developed into the challenge to usury, a
debate which has been effectively stifled in very recent times.
€ Thus many (most) books don't (yet?) include 'The U-Word' in their
indeces.
So, I invite folk to check books (even dictionaries and encyclopeadias) for
the u-word, and even notice the amount of weasling that goes on, in many
that do have it, around the true meaning of this word.
Dance onward, friends!
hugs
j
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