Re: Angels of Death

[Ray Evans Harrell]

Capitalist Presumption that growth is life, homeostasis is holding one's own not living and that old age is death. Capitalism has to exist in a constant state of adolescence in relation to responsibility or a constant state of a con or the life of a psychopath. It breaks down when everyone begins to do it.   For example, we hear about the dot.com bubble as if that is the way adolescents are but the next thing we hear is that the big retirement accounts with the huge baby boomer population began removing their money because of retirement.    Can you imagine what that means?   Compare it to Europe removing its money or Saudi Arabia?     If a natural event like the retirement of a large segment of the US population is so destabilizing how can that mean that the system is reliable? Natural systems are both brutal and unreliable when it comes to maintaining a stasis for the benefit of a civilization.    The Free Market may work. It also may be the most efficient, for itself, of all of the systems.    But that does not mean that it is an answer for civilization.    What you may very well have observed in your statement about the "advancement" of Western Capitalism is merely another bubble based upon the system of Infant care / Adolescence /  Maturity / Eldership. The West has made the adolescent female the model for its concept of beauty. Why should it be surprising that they worship the same model of beauty in their economic system as well?   Milton Friedman as a delirious old man in love with a beautiful willful teenager and convincing a bunch of other old men on the Nobel board that he is correct.   It's Hollywood and the movies all over again. Michael Moore understands it,  Alan Greenspan does not although he should since he studied his music early on.    He forgot.     I always thought that it was the height of hubris to call him "Maestro."      There are no Maestri in economics.     All of the economists are trapped in the yin and yang of Western thought with most of them being at the simple "retail" (supply-side) level.      We can see the issues.    As a teacher I believe the answer is education.    For sure, if a simple artist like myself can see the issues then it isn't all that difficult. Ray Evans Harrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "futurework" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 7:39 AM Subject: Re: Angels of Death > Addendum to previous posting: > > Perhaps we can find an answer to the question in > the title of one of Heidegger's essays: > >     Bauen, Wohnen, Denken > > We build in order to dwell in order to think. > >     Das Fragen ist die Frommigheit des Denkens. > > Questioning is the piety of thinking. > > \brad mccormick > > -- >   Let your light so shine before men, >               that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > >   Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >   Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/