Brad, old lad,

 

Call it what you wish. People like McDonalds stuff. They get enjoyment from it.

Call it Public Health, epidemiology, i.e., a socially coordinated application of human intelligence if you wish, but it boils down to some people telling others what to do. The burger eaters are harming no-one but themselves.

A Unitarian Minister in Ontario once said that: “People should be allowed to go to hell in their own fashion.” If a Mcburger is the path, so be it.

However, I doubt that it the worst thing they imbibe.

As for your antipode, trade is the ultimate of sharing as you give what is yours for what is his. It is peaceful cooperation. The old saw – “If goods don’t cross the frontiers, armies will” is as true now as it was 200 years ago.

Harry

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From: Brad McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: 'Christoph Reuss'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Futurework] Long-Distance Journey of a Fast-Food Order

 

Quoting Harry Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

[snip]
> Billions of people buy from McDonalds and apparently you would
> like to prevent them.
>
> It's called the collectivist mentality.

[snip]

I'd prefer to call it Public Health, epidemiology, i.e., a

socially coordinated application of human intelligence.

"Waking persons share a world in common, but

The dreamer turns to a world unique to himself."  (Heraclitus)

Alas, I know, that "sharing" can take the form

of entrepreneurial competition, which is transcendentally

a kind of sharing [persons cannot compete without

sharing the market space in which they

compete, sharing the protocols of

buying and selling, etc.],

but emiprically this is an antipode of sharing.  --Just

as it is *a* form of coordinated social intelligence

for persons to all decide not to coordinate their

action plans.... ("Many things are strange, but strangest of all

is man, and the strangest of all things about this strangest of

all creatures is that he finds everything strange except for himself...."

--Sophocles, Ode to Man, in Antigone)

\brad mccormick



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