Brad, What I think you all are either missing or unwilling to admit is that this is not us. This is like a disease that is systemic. Today we treat this mess just the same way that people treated sick people in another time in history. What will happen in the future is that the people who had the power and ability to choose and change will be known as the fools and vagrants of history because they treated the financially ill as if they deserved to be so. What we need is not a hero but a worker. A virtuoso who will seriously practice their work in economics until the grasp it by the throat and see through to the other side. We don't need explainers or apologists for this terrible system which gets its fame off of the fact that it is not run by Hitler or the Marquis de Sade (Stalin). But intellectually bankrupt it most assuredly is.
"no matter how you strive, earth's but a barren tree, but I, ahoy, with my salt songs shall force the flower! Fold up your aprons, craftsmen, cast your tools away, fling off Necessity's firm yoke, for Freedom calls. Freedom is but a scornful, lonely song the wind has taken..... Come, drink of Lethe's brackish spring to cleanse your minds, forget your cares, your poisons, your ignoble profits, and make your hearts as babes, unburdened, pure and light. Old men, howl all you can to bring your white teeth back, to make your hair crow-black, your youthful wits go wild, for by our Lady Moon and our lord sun,. I swear old age is a false dream and Death by fantasy......" (Kazantzakis) What more do you have to lose? You have nothing more to lose, Tell the Truth! Ray Evans Harrell > PS: I have had at least a taste of close to genuine freedom > in the year I spend writing my dissertation, in which > the only contacts I had with "teachers" were self-chosen > interactions with persons who had no power to hurt me > becsause they were not part of the faculty of the > school I was enrolled in. And I did indeed seek out > and find such persons. I probably came a lot closer > to young Alexander's or Montaigne's tutelage than > 99% of contemporary learners in whatever country > or from whatever "background" of "means" (which they > do not make use of...) or lack thereof (which > coerces them to do what their wealthier co-specifics > puzzlingly do voluntarily, although maybe I am wrong here, > since George W Bush may indeed have party-ed his > way thru Yale, but I cannot for the life of me > imagine how -- supposedly he was a history major, > a field which I would not dared to enter bacause > I knew I could never do all the reading or memorize > all the facts, etc.). > > There is a heppy land, far, far away. > (--Krazy Kat) > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
