> Well yes, Keynes's "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" was
> and remains a major intellectual influence on me.
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What about the ecological and emotional/cognitive possibilities of our grandchildren?
>
> But why "pathetic" rather than "tragic"? After all, "The bourgeoisie
> has... been the first to show what human activity can bring about. It
> has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman
> aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that
> put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades. The
> bourgeoisie, duirng its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created
> more massive and more colossal productive forces than all preceding
> generations together. Subjection of Nature's forces, machinery,
> application of chemistry to industry and agriculture,
> steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole
> continents for cultivation, canalisation, whole populations conjured
> out of the ground-what earlier century had even a presentiment that
> such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor?"
>
>
> Brad DeLong
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That does not grant them the right to secure their quest for immortality by excluding, ignoring and exploiting all the other non-bourgeoisie on/in the planet.
Ian