Todd, Thank you for your response. In the main, I agree with you. Perhaps what history is teaching us is that our ideas of capitalism need to be modified, less toward a national, and more toward a regional approach. That would indeed be revolutionary, and perhaps require a revolution, since most of the political and economic activities to date appear to have pushed us in the nationalistic direction, and our culture has become highly nationalistic. You and others appear to be advocating a change of thinking. If so, I agree.
But first, to say the least, we need a philosophy as the basis to reverse the nationalism trend and redirect it toward regionalism,. The Jewdaic-Christian heritage is generally credited with having been the basis for the present high standard of living. I suggest go to that for the development of such a philosophy. You ennunciated one principle of this philosophy, "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil." Some other elements from this same heritage, not much a part of the capitalistic approach and our culture these days, are: "A man's life consists not in the abundance of things which he possesses." And "love they neighbor as thyself." On this all the commandments are based, "Love the Lord God with all thy heart, and love they neighbor as thyself." Nor are most of these principles altogetgher unique to the Jewdaic-Christian heritage. Others have advocated and practiced these principles outside of our culture. And, can the capitalistic system survive much longer without incorporating these principles? And, can not its failures and its weaknesses largely be attributed to not having practiced such principles? Glenn Ellis [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/RN.GAA/9bTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
