Re: Re: RE: Genoa and Beyond II: The View from the Black Bloc

2001-08-05 Thread Ken Hanly
Close but not quite the Absolute mind you :) Cheers, Ken Hanly. - Original Message - From: Ian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:23 PM Subject: [PEN-L:15674] Re: RE: Genoa and Beyond II: The View from the Black Bloc >

Re: RE: Re: Genoa and Beyond II: The View from the Black Bloc

2001-08-02 Thread Ian Murray
> . . . > What are the members of the mainstream cult afraid of? What are YOU afraid > of? What am I afraid of? The G8? The WTO? The IMF? Globalization? The cops? > The Black Bloc? The Almighty Dollar? The Apocalypse? > nope > Tom Walker > > > you'll have to bring this down from poetry > to pro

RE: Re: Genoa and Beyond II: The View from the Black Bloc

2001-08-02 Thread Max Sawicky
. . . What are the members of the mainstream cult afraid of? What are YOU afraid of? What am I afraid of? The G8? The WTO? The IMF? Globalization? The cops? The Black Bloc? The Almighty Dollar? The Apocalypse? nope Tom Walker you'll have to bring this down from poetry to prose for the more dense

Re: RE: Genoa and Beyond II: The View from the Black Bloc

2001-08-02 Thread Ian Murray
> The broken window fable is part and parcel of the luddism/lump-of-labour > refrain. It is the bulwark defence of the mainstream cult. It is a clever > concoction of half-truths, straw men and abstract theorizing posing as > empirical fact. So is the lump-of-labor the Absolute? Ian

Re: RE: RE: Genoa and Beyond II: The View from the Black Bloc

2001-08-02 Thread Rob Schaap
> If we eliminated lawyers, what would aggressive, argumentative, anal, > overeducated liberal arts types do? I find a well-balanced mailing-list subscription regime answers tolerably well ... Cheers, Rob.

RE: RE: Genoa and Beyond II: The View from the Black Bloc

2001-08-02 Thread David Shemano
Tom Walker writes: <<>> I agree entirely. Well, not entirely. The conservative side of me agrees with you. But the libertarian side of me believes that any proposed cure would be worse than the disease. If we eliminated lawyers, what would aggressive, argumentative, anal, overeducated libera

Re: RE: RE: Genoa and Beyond II: The View from the Black Bloc

2001-08-02 Thread Ian Murray
> Well, not entirely. The conservative side of me agrees with you. But the > libertarian side of me believes that any proposed cure would be worse than > the disease. > > If we eliminated lawyers, what would aggressive, argumentative, anal, > overeducated liberal arts types do? > > David Shemano