REH wrote:
> The problem is a system that must generate progress through surplus
> (profit). That redefines sustainability and stability into stagnation
No. There could be quaLitative growth. For example, Obama could generate
massive growth in renewable energy technologies and fuel-efficient cars.
As he had promised, btw. It's too lame an excuse to blame his failure
of delivering the change he promised, on "the system". If the world's
most powerful man can't change things, then who can? ("Yes he can"??)
> and creates a situation that is at best chaotic with lots of Private
> Enterprise viruses eating at the root of the tree of prosperity.
By nationalizing the bank losses??
> Their
> only comparison is to the failure of "communism" which was really a "King"
> system with an elite advisory legislature. Their inadequate version of
> our counsel system. Either way they are both western products in a culture
> that admires aristocracy more than anything. It's your system Ed.
The Cherokee and Aztecs also had a king. The Swiss not.
> Take for example, two things on the web. Dictionary. Com and Babelfish.
> They used to be open use and had great reference. Good etymological
> sources and reasonable translations for some languages. But there was no
> profit in that and everyone jumped on the copyright wagon and now we have an
> inferior free product and if you buy Babylon or any of the other for profit
> products they gum up your system because they operate like an invading army.
> They are also inferior translations. I put a German or Italian art song
> text in and they can't translate it.
Computer translations are always inferior -- free or not. This applies even
to simple texts, so of course poems and art song texts are beyond reach.
> The rule for you white
> folks is the opposed of "We are all connected." It's "we are all
> disconnected in order to make a profit."
Question: Was the Internet, by which you are now connected to FWers around
the planet, made by white folks or by Cherokees? I'm afraid it would be a
bit difficult to communicate from Europe or Australia to NYC by smoke signals
-- much less in real time.
Of course it's true that excessive greed is harmful, also to the free flow
of information, but you are wrong to blame "white folks" in general for that.
It comes back to the Predators issue, about which you are in denial.
> Your system
> doesn't work Ed, Arthur, Chris, Harry, Spencer, Tom, etc., etc, etc.
> Your system doesn't work.
Predators mess up systems, but a system ruled by Predators is NOT MY system!
> You need to think harder and write.
You do.
> Or is
> the fact that Futurework has been quiet on my computer mean I've been banned
> or removed from the list?
Let's not get paranoid.
Chris
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