Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > Adding to the debt may indeed result in the demise of the America as > we know it although the timing is unpredictable. > > [Arlo] > Describe what you mean when you say "the demise of America"? Do you > mean that our nation will geographically fall apart and be replaced > by other, smaller nations?
Excessive national debt can lead to destructive inflation and the rise of a dictatorship, or defensive weakness encouraging invasion. > [Platt] > As for your solving of social problems intellectually, consider > Pirsig's warning about current S/O intellect's lack of a moral sense. > > [Arlo] > Yes, yes. "Kill em all like germs". We know that's your favorite > quote. And again I have never suggested that "intellect" alone will > solve all our social ills. But, I think applying social force, as in > the case of a foreign invasion, has to be done only after > intellectual reasoning has led us to believing that to be the best > course of action. Additionally, we can not be blind to our part in > the fostering of that which we are trying to eradicate. We can not be > blind to the Henry Ford-Nazi connection, nor to the historical > foundations laid out following WWI that helped create the ability for > the rampant patriotic and racist policies of the Reich. > > So, no, intellect alone won't solve all our potential problems, but > neither will nationalistic blindness to our role in these events. "Intellect alone won't solve all our potential problems . . ." Words of wisdom. "Nationalistic blindness" or "national defense" are debatable viewpoints. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
