>Kendall wrote:
>
>You should read what I said more carefully. I was specifically talking
>> not about all workers or about society, but about progressive people
>> who are already predisposed to self-regulating their consumptive
>> practices based on their own moral reasoning.
>
>Kendall, I think, given what Carrol has written before, that Carrol's
>problem with your "moralizing" is that progressive actions on an individual
>level are relatively meaningless given the power a mass movement would have
>when acting on similar issues. Forgive me if I'm taking seriously a private
>joke between the two of you, but it certainly sounded as if the two of you
>were doing your damndest to talk past each other.
I remember a quote from Durenmatt's play The Physicists, which I read in high school German class long ago, which runs something like: "Every attempt by an individual to solve that which concerns all must fail."
Doug