On Monday, January 13, 2003 at 13:11:45 (-0800) Ian Murray writes: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bill Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Another truckload of crap. We have created princes and when they >> bestow us with a trickle of benefactions, our knees weaken in their >> divine presence. It would be more accurate to say "God damn the rich. >> How much richer we would all be without them". > >Ok, but how do we tell stories to incentivize the working class [each >other] to understand that the current regime of wealth production is >making life miserable for countless living beings on this planet, so >they/we feel empowered to do something about it rather than engaging in >yet another iteration in the great big cul-de-sac of cynicism and >despair?
You do the emotionally hard and intellectually easy work of getting your ass in front of people and talking to them, educating them (I prefer the didactic mode to that of storyteller, incidentally). I'll bet Doug Henwood alone has managed to change the minds of oodles of the formerly benighted. I want people to be pissed. They are being robbed blind, their children are denied the glorious opportunities of full development (use just about any sense you want, Amartya Sen's would be fine), and the blood of innocents is being spilled to satisfy the wants of a small sliver of the population. I am seriously contemplating starting a new party, True Conservatives, who believe that Democracy must come first, that we should be responsible for our own actions, follow the Golden Rule, not seek to enrich ourselves at the expense of others, that we should honestly communicate with one another instead of hiring professional propagandists to do so, that we should seek out the boundaries of human potential and then never rest until each person has been brought to that elevated plane. Bill
