On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Eugene P. Coyle wrote:
Consumption is learned behavior. The desire for Coca Cola doesn't
spring unbidden from the innocent mind. And Coca Cola needs an
infrastructure. Refridgeration and ice. Coca Cola had a hard time getting
started in the UK because ice
Doug Henwood: How can you stop this process? From your own example,
Michael, its
"victims" embrace it with enthusiasm
Louis Proyect: Why do you put "victims" in quotes, Doug?...
It makes sense to put the word "victim" in quotes because the word seems to
imply that these people will always
Eskimos Warm to the Digital Age
By Doug Fine
Sunday, August 9, 1998; Page C01
I had never seen a Web site materialize so fast. I was in Toksook Bay, a
largely subsistence Yup'ik Eskimo village in western Alaska, 400 miles from
Russia and 5,700 miles from Washington. My host, Greg Lincoln, a
Doug Henwood wrote:
they seem to want to deny the Mexican farmer the right to
use a Ford tractor.
Moderinizing farmers in the U.S. and elsewhere are notorious for overestimating
the gains from new technologies. My first book was called Farming for Profit
in a Hungry World (1977). I don't
1. Today's NY Times Magazine section has an article on the Makah
whale-hunt. This has attracted major controversy because the middle-class
greens organized in Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are protesting the
Makah decision. The Makah number 2000 souls in Northwest Washington State
and have
The first piece I published was about the story that Benjamin Franklin
told about Capitain Cook. The good captain gave some islanders a steel
ax. The chopped and chopped, admiring its utility and then returned it
because they did not know how to make it and so did not want to become
dependent
Louis Proyect wrote:
Doug Henwood:
How can you stop this process? From your own example, Michael, its
"victims" embrace it with enthusiasm. From what democratic point of view
can you hinder it? "Civilization" has committed many crimes against
indigenous peoples, but I don't see how you can
"The Enlightened One":
I think you should come to terms, publicly, with the fact that the
mode of production indigenous cultures are based on is not viable.
Indeed, even your cherished Amazon indios are happy to use shotguns and
machetes.
(from my article "Blackfoot Civilization")
When
Michael Perelman wrote:
This argument is old. People from Montesqueiu to Kautsky made it, but it is
wrong. More often than not, different modes of production are incompatible.
Once the indigeneous peoples begin drinking coke and watching U.S. cinema,
they will have great difficulty maintaining
Amanaka'a Amazon Network, July 26, 1998
Guarani Indians face eviction from their Ancestral Lands
Survival has just learned of an attempt to force a community of Guarani
Indians from Potrero Guaçu, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul,
from their ancestral lands. In a judgment issued
This doesn't seem like a joke. The elderly eating cat food are much better
off since the free market produced gourmet cat food. We might as well
admit that innovation brings benefits. Of course the gourmet variety is
more expensive, but that only adds to consumer choice. All to the good.
And
Doug Henwood:
How can you stop this process? From your own example, Michael, its
"victims" embrace it with enthusiasm. From what democratic point of view
can you hinder it? "Civilization" has committed many crimes against
indigenous peoples, but I don't see how you can number Coca-Cola and movies
I took the following from
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/main.html
Steve Ballmer, the new president of
Microsoft, once explained to me at some
length how important it was for Microsoft
software to be the most pirated in the
Michael Perelman wrote:
In closing, I think that societies depend social norms. The image that
many people have of life in the United States is inaccurate, but
absolutely seductive.
Maybe you can help me sort this thing out?
It's not easy to sort out, because, as Terry Eagleton characterized
"The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of
production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all,
even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of
commodities are the heavy artillery with which it forces the barbarians'
intensely
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