Hi Ray:
I'm probably a little off topic here but in the Universe's own way of
synchronicity, the message I read before this one somehow connects in my
mind some of the confusion you are feeling. If I may share this posting
with the list, I would ask that you all take a silent moment, look out the
window and contemplate the profound differences in value between our current
capitalistic society and the perceptions of the Blackfoot Nation, which
existed - probably for several thousand years as a cohesive economic and
social system in which people fulfilled their wants and needs within there
environment.
In 1938, Abraham Maslow did anthropological research
among Blackfoot Indians in Canada. He observed that the
concept of wealth had a special meaning among the Indians:
"When I asked the white secretary of the reserve who
was the richest man, he mentioned a man none of the
Indians had mentioned - that is, the man who had on
the books the most stock, the most cattle and horses.
When I came back to my Indian informants and asked
them about Jimmy McHugh, about all his horses,
they shrugged with contempt.
"He keeps it", they said, and as a consequence,
they hadn't even thought to regard him as wealthy.
White-Headed Chief was 'wealthy' among the tribe,
even though he owned nothing.
The men who were formally generous
in this way were the most admired, most respected, and
the most loved men in the tribe. These were the men
who benefited the tribe, the men they could
be proud of, who warmed their hearts"
~Edward Hoffman's biography of Abraham Maslow
called, "The Right to Be Human."!
on 2/23/02 7:35 PM, Ray Evans Harrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Keith Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 2:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Floating currencies (was Re: The Science of Fairness)
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>> Hi Steve,
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>> At 23:12 17/02/02 -0500, you wrote:
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>> As we seem to be the only two FWers who have been foolish enough in the
>> past few months to suggest that America's recession is likely to continue
>> for a great deal longer than most commentators dare to say,
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> I have no sense that the members of the list would be so foolish as to
> believe the hype from the government. I posted the Krugman articles
> regularly. I even spoke of the grief in my own work and studio with
> people eating in AA meetings because they didn't have food to eat. We have
> given MCORE seed grants to artists who are all hurting and don't look to
> stop in the near future. It is bad out here and when I wrote it the
> response was silence, except you said you didn't understand. Now I don't
> understand.
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> REH
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