The text below is forwarded from Vic Bridger. I have found that Topica is somewhat quirky and inconsistent in posting or forwarding messages. About two weeks ago, I myself suddenly stopped receiving messages from Topica to my mail.com accounts: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] . That second address was my moderator account so moderation was effectively disabled. Probably several subscriber messages were lost.
If you have had trouble receiving or posting list messages, please write to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------- August 21, 2003 Bill, Re the attachment of the article by Keith Wilde could you just post my response as follows> Dear Keith, In reply to your posting which contained the summary, "If I have drawn the appropriate message from your essay, a more conventional way of talking about Douglas' political philosophy, in word usage familiar to me, would be to say that he opposed the ability of one "special interest group" to exert power over all other groups and individuals in society at large. Am I getting it yet?", my response is yes, you are getting it. Douglas mistakenly believed that all he had to do was draw attention to the flaw in the financial accounting system and that having done so it could be remedied. The attacks on him and his ideas finally forced him to realise that it was not so much a resistance to his ideas, although there were countless books articles and debates on his A+B Theorem, but a resistance to the underlying philosophy which opposed the ability of a group, any group, to make the individual subservient to that group. The means by which a "special interest group", as you put it, controls people in society, individually and collectively is through money. Most of the support that was engendered in the early days came from socialists who were attracted by the idea of a National Dividend etc. One of the reasons the Labor Party in Britain were so vehemently against him was because their supporters were attracted to Social Credit, albeit for the wrong reasons. If ever a vindication is needed to support Douglas' contentions regarding the money power one has only to look behind the scenes in the Albertan episode. That is why, in his later years he devoted his efforts to draw attention to the fact that although finance and the money question was just as important as ever, "it is the second trench to be taken". The first being to expose those controlling the money power, who not only controlled the people through that money power but also governments who are supposed to representing the people. Vic Bridger ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84IaC.bcVIgP.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^----------------------------------------------------------------
