Chris, Well said!
The Civilizations may have dozens of religions, scores of languages, a variety of political philosophies, but the one thing they have in common is trade. The constant movement of goods and services makes members of a civilization interdependent that in turn makes war less likely. Thus the civilization survives. Civilizations fall because they fail to supply the second need - justice. But that's for another time. Harry ******************************* Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 818 352-4141 ******************************* > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:futurework- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss > Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 2:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Futurework] Throwing rocks doesn't work any more > > > We seem to be coming to a fork in the road. Perhaps there is > > no "middle way", at least for now. > > Is civilization a "middle way"? Depends on how one defines the > "two sides" > or legs of the fork. > > In the official version, the two sides are "Dubya vs. Osama" (or in > the > localized version, "Ariel vs. Hamas"). > > But upon closer look, it becomes evident that the two apparent > "opposites" > have more in common than they differ (think Carlyle Group). This > leads to > a more sensible version -- that the two sides are "Civilization vs. > Extremism (totalitarian barbarism, terrorism)". There, the way to > go is > not a "middle way" but "one side" of the fork. > > Chris > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the > keyword > "igve". > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
