On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 8:03 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> All good things, and most are being done and will accelerate. But don't crush > commerce, because a third-world lifestyle is only one big downturn away. It's because of "commerce" that we're in the messes that we're all in right now - both the environmental and financial messes. Yes, let's just keep doing things the way we have been, because that's worked so well up to now, hasn't it? Let's see: a World War followed by a Great Depression, followed by another World War followed by a Cold War (in which we almost blew the planet to smithereens) followed by a terrorist attack that plunged us into more wars and now another depression. And those are only the highlights. Punctuate all that with a bunch of smaller wars (Vietnam, Korea, the various Gulf Wars), endless civil wars and insurrections, the constant and ongoing conflicts in such areas as the Middle East, all manner of tyrannical dictatorships (of both the right and the left), famines, genocides, ethnic cleansings, constant boom/bust economic cycles that are becoming more frequent and deeper and an environment that's degrading much faster than anyone imagined even a few years ago. Yup, the last 100 years or so have been great - we don't want to lose all that "commerce" has provided to us, do we? cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
