You write?:
>I admire Chomsky a lot, and for many reasons, but this is one place where
>we have to part company. He has a bit more faith in the liberating powers
>of truth & reason than I do.
Which doesn't really matter, Doug. That's all there is and you're gonna have to go with it. 'Pessimism of the intellect; optimism of the will', as a bent, sick, old-before-his-time, little man once advised, whilst languishing in a Fascist prison cell ...
We are, it seems to me, in the throes of joining the very dots we traversed between 1928 and 1941. Ya want excess capacity ... underconsumption ... incipient fascism amongst the economically desperate but militarily powerful ... nascent imperialist belligerence? We got it.
Seems pretty true and reasonable to me - and just the sort of thing that might make people think about the structurally fundamental nature of what ails us, I reckon.
Or mebbe I really do need a course of Prozac ...
Rob.