Justin: Well, it's not taht anyone wants to havesex with antelope thanks, nor do they want to rost them. Rather, it's that there will always be scarcity. Perhaps roasting antelope shanks or the desire to have sex with an antelope shank is like the leftist fanrasy that there will be no scarity. This is silliness, however. See my article, "Scarcity will never be in short supply" --jks
>Kelley Walker wrote:
>
> >no. i simply _won't_ stand for it. not again. enough is enough. we cannot
> >have yet one more convo about progress and capitalism. like the "defining
> >surplus value" thread it happens over and over again, like some kind of
> >obsessive-compulsive ritual! STOP THE INSANTIY!
>
>I'm having visions of the future:
>
>[Joined in progress]
>
>Doug Henwood: Oh sure, why don't we all just go back to our caves and roast
>antelope shanks over an open fire.
>
>Yoshie Furuhashi: I think _most_ LBO-talkers, & _most_ leftists, secretly
>want to have sex with antelope shanks. They obviously _haven't_ read the
>_Grundrisse_.
>Dennis Perrin: Isn't that just like you, Yoshie, to hide behind your
>obfuscatory academic jargon when you should be out slinging slop with the
>working class, like I do.
>
>Doug Henwood: Primitivist!!
>
>Carl Remick: In the good old days, we didn't have technology.
>
>Carrol Cox: Carl, don't be a dumbfuck piece-of-shit thickheaded stupidshit
>jackass.
>
>Yoshie Furuhashi: Workers of the world, unite _around_ technology & stop
>_the_ raping of the Earth!!
>
>(((((((((((((((((((
>
>Charles Brown: Marx called the Earth a woman . I think I ' m going to ask
>her for a date .
>
>James Heartfield: Anyone who questions technology or doubts my version of
>science in any way is obviously an elitist who hates the working class.
>
>Michael Pugliese: The Unabomber ( hey, does anyone know whatever happened
>to Lyndon LaRouche)
>
>Doug Henwood: Primitivist!!
>
>Dennis Redmond: If we get rid of technology, anime will be destroyed and
>the keiretsu will suffer. Plus, I'll have to go back to watching Warner
>Bros. toons and playing Dungeons & Dragons. And to borrow from Adorno,
>that's a real bummer.
>
>Chip Berlet: People who question technology are obviously right-wing
>populists.
>
>Nathan Newman: The Democrats will save technology and give it to everyone
>for free. Anyone who doubts that is just being lefter-than-thou.
>
>Peter Kilander: In Fight Club, they used technology to blow up technology.
>
>Doug Henwood: Primitivist!!
>
>Etc.