----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:09 AM Subject: Re: is the New Economy a fad
> joanna bujes wrote:
>
> >That's not fair Doug. Chuck is not advocating a return to the stone
> >age; he was taking part in a debate about the relative costs of
> >public transit and he was reminding everyone that there are huge
> >costs associated with some of our modern amenitites, which, when
> >taken into account, make spending on public transportation
> >relatively cheaper than private transport.
>
> When you invoke an unmixed catalog of horrors lurking behind the flip
> of a light switch, without a word of appreciations of the virtues of
> artificial illumination, you gotta wonder if you're heading toward
> Kirkpatrick Sale-land, where it's all been downhill since the
> invention of agriculture.
>
> Doug
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Hey I thought we were trying to work our way beyond the nature/artifact binary on this list? Perhaps we can't do so without expressing the ecological compossibilities and non-compossibilities....
Ian
"Art is the word light writes in Space" [Bill Laswell]