First, thanks.
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>From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]":#ECOM - COMÉ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Torn
>Date: Mon, Dec 6, 1999, 11:34 am
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> Is a simpler life style (snip) of lesser quality?
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Second:
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Dear f-w friends
Simplicity lies on a scale somewhere between poverty and effluence :
Poverty - - - - - Simplicity - - - - - Effluence
But ! Simplicity is a cusp that's unachieveable in a market economy, since,
in such a madhouse, activity results either in (ever escalating) profit
accumulation, or in (ever escalating) impoverishment.
(This could be graphed, were e-mails there yet!)
The solution is to invert the 'values' that lead to this cusp and, so,
create the cusp as the default condition - to move, in other words, to an
economics (an 'oikonimos') based on giving out, rather than accumulating in
of, both, material 'goods' and spiritual 'bads.'
Central to this oikonimos is our use of money.
higs
(and hugs)
j
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