Robert,
You suggested:
"society's rationalizations for not being able to solve its problems?"
I suspect therein lies the problem. Society doesn't solve problems though
it may create them.
You and I solve problems. However as said Einstein (I think) in a quote
that I enjoy:
"Solutions are ea
I appreciate Brad McCormick's struggle to make himself clear. I believe the
problem is language. We are forced to use it (language), as I am doing now
to address the problem. I've had some success helping beginning English
teachers wrestle with this. Most people seem comfortable with the word
'con
I sent this to BasicIncome by mistake. If you receuved it once already,
my apologies.
This is a response to JohnCourtneidje's posting about poverty.
To the 15 points may be added:
War is good because so many wonderful medical and technological
inventions are made.
If there weren't criminals, w
I believe this captures a great deal:
>"It is not necessary to construct a theory of intentional cultural
>control. In truth, the strength of the control process rests in its
>apparent absence. The desired systemic result is achieved ordinarily by a
>loose though effective institutional process.
Arthur Cordell wrote:
> On a more brutal note, if an occupying force tries to keep an occupied
> village of 100 in line by shooting one villager (and this to a large degree
> is successful) do we say that those who get the message are now self
> censoring or have effective selection processes ta
Dear Friends
The following seems relevant
Hugs
j
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THE FUNCTIONS OF POVERTY
(From "Poverty in the United Kingdom"; Townsend, Peter; Penguin Books Ltd,
London, England; 1979)
"One application of the functionalist approach to the phenomenon of poverty
allows us t
and goals is now put in place.
> People understand what is wanted and understand the price to pay for
> changing the alignment.
>
>
> arthur cordell
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effective alignment of occupier values and goals is now put in place.
People understand what is wanted and understand the price to pay for
changing the alignment.
arthur cordell
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Date: Wednesday
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Michael Gurstein wrote:
> Assuming that such consistency is achieved (through effective selection
> processes, often including psychological evaluation, for example), then no
> censorship, self or otherwise is required...
That's explicitly assuming an awful lot and implicitl
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The scum is in ourselves, not in our stars, methinks. It would be much
easier to "do something" about the injustice in the world than most of us
admit, either to ourselves or to others. I
d with both.
Regards
Ed G
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our
workplace is self-censorship. One reply I get, though, is that
the only
faultless move a bureaucrat can make is to do nothing!!
Arthur Cordell
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The scum is in ourselves, not in o
> One reply I get, though, is that the only
> faultless move a bureaucrat can make is to do nothing!!
Gee, and I thought doing nothing was the *main* fault of bureaucrats...
Most of the time they play "bureaucrat Mikado" -- the first one who moves
has lost!
;-)
Chris
The old gorillas and cold water trick.
In the epilogue to Eros and Civilization, Marcuse gives the following
quote written by Freud during the First World War:
"Think of the colossal brutality, cruelty and mendacity which is now
allowed to spread itself over the civilized world. Do you really be
Yup. I tell my colleagues that the most profound form of censorship in our
workplace is self-censorship. One reply I get, though, is that the only
faultless move a bureaucrat can make is to do nothing!!
Arthur Cordell
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Subject: Blaming the
The scum is in ourselves, not in our stars, methinks. It would be much
easier to "do something" about the injustice in the world than most of us
admit, either to ourselves or to others. It seems to me that the
self-censorship I encounter in people at the middle levels is far in
excess of what peop
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