My comment was about agriculture by "Americans" (prior to 1491) not by European Americans who have steadily lowered the fertility of the soils here by 70% (according the Canadian government) and now are going to work to destroy the place for energy. Your worship of the toys of science does not impress me simply because of the insensitivity and inhumanity that goes along with it.
The definition of insanity is "unbalanced" and your toys seem more indicative of a tumor on the face of human society than anything to brag about. The Common Market was started as a last gasp against the war mentality of Europe that had gone on every 25 years for at least a thousand years. In the19th century the God of destruction had destroyed 100 million members of Indigenous Nations in North and South America but once that spirit was done it turned in on itself and went after their populations in Europe in the 20th century. Now they are devouring the environment here. I don't imagine the Scots would allow anyone to destroy the Scottish Highlands as is happening in West Virginia for coal. Anyway, that experiment in commonality in Europe is doomed to failure because you don't seem to want it nor are you willing to find a way to make it work that gives respect to each culture. The problem Keith, is old fashioned sin and abuse of one's neighbors. That "devil virus" raises its ugliness today in North Carolina where Christian mullahs speak of imprisoning people for being gay and yes, even killing them. Julius Streicher anyone? How can a continent with such great Art and physical beauty be so ugly in every other way? It's always about the people. I don't believe in the "Devil" nor do I believe that we receive pardon from some Messiah for our sins. We are responsible and the money God is not the Ultimate here. Your writer and the Money God doesn't give a shit about what happens to the Elders or the children of a society that gives all support to monetary wealth production. Nor does your writer care about destruction. It was merchants and bankers governments that destroyed China for Tea and murdered indigenous peoples all around the world and then through shills like the ancestors of Jared Diamond they claimed immunity with the lying stories about "human stages of development" and everyone doing it. I would argue that today's bankers encourage the continuance of that tradition and that the story resembles nothing more than a simple Puritan in banker's clothing. You shipped your Puritans over here and they murdered millions but the virus is still alive as your article shows. The deaths were horrible but the spirit is eternal. What is truly horrible were the lies because that destroyed the accomplishments and reduced thousands of years of progress, culture and art to simple gold bullion and enslaved our children with those lies. Banks can be useful, as can a free market, but anyone who expects them to be moral or even efficient is infected with the virus. As Exxon Chairman Lee Raymond made perfectly clear. The purpose of the market is not Society but simple profit at all costs. I'm not a merchant, or a banker, or a destroyer of the earth, I consider those people to be in need of severe regulation and a logical order to their development for the protection of the rest of us, so that every citizen has a chance of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. I think Krugman feels same way since such ethics are buried in his culture where I teach. That is impressive and explains their excellence. Banking explains their demise. REH From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:23 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION; Ray Harrell Subject: RE: [Futurework] Women and the world economy:A guide to womenomics At 21:55 21/05/2012, REH wrote: Three eras before 1491? I don't know what was specific about 1491 but certainly the 15th century -- the dawn of the industrial era -- was the most momentous of any for 10,000 years beforehand. Early in that century the Ming dynasty stopped the Chinese trans-oceanic fleet in its tracks (an edict that took centuries to wear off), and late in that century the merchant ships of Europe became truly trans-oceanic for the first time and thus moved into the trading vacuum. Keith REH From: Keith Hudson [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 2:08 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION; Ray Harrell Subject: RE: [Futurework] Women and the world economy:A guide to womenomics At 15:26 21/05/2012, REH wrote: We always count on you Keith for a mega view of things. Your comments are the reverse of the rave reviews for agriculture in Jared Diamond. Agriculture in America was considered women's work because women are directly connected to the earth mother. They also owned the fields and conscripted the men to help working them. They owned the house as well and could divorce the husband simply by leaving his shoes on the porch. There's little doubt that in all three economic eras, women have worked harder than men even if not at the more explosive activities. Keith REH From: [email protected] [ <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 2:43 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION; michael gurstein Subject: Re: [Futurework] Women and the world economy:A guide to womenomics At 01:06 21/05/2012, Mike wrote: Women and the world economy:A guide to womenomics |The Economist http://t.co/Ag4XLuui ... It's a useful article (so thanks for making it available to us) but pretty pedestrian for all that -- and entirely missing out the single most important reason why women have been heavily oppressed for thousands of years. Agriculture. Incredibly, the word itself didn't appear in the whole article! It was the spreading of manual agriculture all round the world that necessitated the maximum number of children to work in the fields and women, too, at seeding and harvesting times, which broke the contraceptive effect of breast feeding as it had occurred during hunter-gatherer times. Thus women were hit by a double whammy during the agricultural era. They were required to work the fields on occasion but they were also necessary to work hard at home, feeding, cleaning, educating and organizing far too large families. All this has gone by the board in the case of about one third of the world population but it's still the case that most women are still oppressed -- and to the most vile extent in the Islamic countries where the agricultural culture has become further strengthened by sharia law. However, as agricultural syndicates are pushing most of the rural poor into the cities, then women will start re-asserting themselves in the same way as has already happened in the West and is now taking place in the coastal provinces of China. All this may not seem relevant to the authors of the article (anonymous as usual) who were, quite obviously, confining themselves to the advanced world, but it should have been. The plain fact is that newly assertive women of the West have, for the past 30 years or so, decided to have less than replacement-sized families. From now onwards it doesn't really matter what further marginal changes take place in the role of women -- politically, economically, culturally -- because populations of European countries and the white population of America are already at the point of dropping precipitously. The article was describing the table manners of those who were dining on the Titanic when it hit the iceberg rather than the fate of the whole ship. Keith Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/> Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/> Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/>
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