Chris, I think you and I agree about the usefulness of the wealthy as a social mechanism. On the other hand you seem to be in love with a strophic song form that I simply don't relate to. I could stand a little more through composing (durchkomponiert) from you. Sometimes the strophic form is both too predictable and too erratic to really get what you are saying.
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] "America "on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere." REH wrote: > 1. The treatment of the disadvantaged and the poor are very much in line > with the kind of thinking I've known from Wall Street that preferred to call > Muslims "Camel drivers" rather than oil men or Sheiks. The same for any > other ethnicity. The one constant in all of this is that the system seems > to turn any group that makes it into the system into bigots and racists > towards other less advantaged groups. The issue in this thread was that a small rich MINORITY builds walls to keep out the poor majority and let that MAJORITY go down in mayhem. (Today in the Middle East, tomorrow in global Armageddon.) You cannot compare this with the Roma situation in Western Europe -- no walls, no mayhem, and the minority in question is poor, not rich. > We have a common market in Europe > and elsewhere and the tolerant laws are enacted but are ignored and the > bragging about enactment increases as the basic abuse accelerates. The common market is about things, not persons. The "free movement of persons" laws were enacted for labor mobility, not beggar/burglar mobility. (That's not about racism, it's about extreme economic inequality.) Officially, at least -- but of course, the latter was kept in the back of the head by the "security" industry and the mafia that has a big lobby in Brussels... > So no, it's not off topic. It's another look at the same > fire from a different angle. Don't things look different from the top of > the Matterhorn than they do on another peak? Different things look different also from the same spot. Unless distorted... > 2. (Sarkozy and LePen) Are you saying that Democracy is systemically > bigoted? What do you suggest in its place? My point was that a member of a minority can also be bigoted. As for Democracy: Could you imagine Angela Merkel openly bidding for NPD voters? Unthinkable and it won't happen. But with Sarkozy, it's a matter of course. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
