Kenneth Campbell wrote:
You cannot let people have time... Yet I can think of
nothing I would treasure more.
According to an anonymous author writing in a pamphlet published in 1821:
"After all their idle sophistry, there is, thank God! no means of adding to
the wealth of a nation but by adding
"Earned it" could mean many things.
More immediately, it would mean you did your 4-hours. It was not
"bestowed."
Ken.
--
CLARKE'S LAW: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
How do I go about "earning it"?
Gene Coyle
Kenneth Campbell wrote:
I wrote:
You cannot let people have time... Yet I can think of
nothing I would treasure more.
Just to make sure I was clear, there...
I do not mean the time one gets from calling in sick, or from gett
I wrote:
>You cannot let people have time... Yet I can think of
>nothing I would treasure more.
Just to make sure I was clear, there...
I do not mean the time one gets from calling in sick, or from getting
unemployment, or from welfare, or from being derelict... Nor do I mean
the time one gets f
Mike B) wrote:
>Commdification has made consciousness cheap along with
>everything else, most especially, our lives.
Idle hands... idle hands... the devil's work results, every time, under
any system. You cannot let people have time... Yet I can think of
nothing I would treasure more.
Ken.
--
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ome on the left claim the indulgent materialism is
> using up the
> economy's resources while serious social problems
> are left unsolved.
>
> Similarly, many economists argue that "affluenza"
> has pushed too many
> Americans deeply into debt and produced a saving
"Devine, James" wrote:
>
>
> By JEFF MADRICK
>
> THE booming economy of the 1990's spawned many a spurious piece of
> conventional wisdom. One is that Americans' materialism has run amok.
>
> Americans from all walks of life, the story goes, are spending with
> abandon on fancy and unnecessary prod
economy's resources while serious social problems are left unsolved.
Similarly, many economists argue that "affluenza" has pushed too many
Americans deeply into debt and produced a savings rate too low to
sustain prosperity without the piling up of mountains of foreign debt.
There
Given the discussion on the list re the Affluenza program, it's interesting
to note the differences in the earlier Running Out of Time documentary
(1994), also fronted by Scott Simon and produced by Oregon Public
Broadcasting & KCTS/Seattle. I think Oregon PBS produced the
>AAlso, thow yung women in the wshow, high school students, were
>praised for rallying around anti-consumerism, after a visit to Mexico. The
poor
>Mexicans were poor but they were so gracious and seemed happy. Well, how they
>would know that the poor Mexicans were happy is a mystery the sho
Friends,
I want to support Louis's comments on the AFFLUENZA program. It was, to my
wife and I, pretty superficial. Plus, a lot of attention was given to rightwing
religius nuts from Colorado Springs who are preaching less consumerism and more
god and family. Also, thow yung women i
ersonal choice rather than a *political* question.
> >The show evoked themes found in UTNE reader and in Deep Ecology
> >organizations. They are poor responses to the challenge we face.
> >
> >The problem with Affluenza is that it depicts an escape from the consumer
> >tr
On Tue, September 16, 1997 at 12:38:36 (-0700) Wojtek Sokolowski writes:
>At 07:34 AM 9/16/97 -0700, Louis Proyect wrote, inter alia:
>>
>>The problem with Affluenza is that it depicts an escape from the consumer
>>treadmill *within* capitalism.
>
>Playing a devil
voked themes found in UTNE reader and in Deep Ecology
>organizations. They are poor responses to the challenge we face.
>
>The problem with Affluenza is that it depicts an escape from the consumer
>treadmill *within* capitalism.
Playing a devil's advocate:
How exactly are the *polit
Louis N Proyect wrote:
>
>The show tip-toed around the all important question of the capitalist
>system. It made the need to reverse environmental degradation,
>consumerism, etc. a personal choice rather than a *political* question.
>The show evoked themes found in UTNE reader and in Deep Ecology
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Thad Williamson wrote:
> PBS carried a one-hour, Pew Trust sponsored program called "Affluenza"
> tonight about American consumerism. The first 45 minutes were quite good
> though the last part on responses focussed solely on individualist
> strategie
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