[lbo-talk] Re: joined at the hip?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 16 11:50:09 PDT 2003


Chuck0 wrote:


>Why stop with nuclear and anti-personnel bombs. What about all of
>the other modern tech we use? How can you "use it for good" when it
>depends on an international system of capitalism, colonization,
>globalization, and neoliberalism? Why should the Hopi
>traditionalists move off of their land so that the corporations can
>get materials to make technology that you will use for "good"? Why
>should the Uwa accomodate capitalists who want to take stuff to make
>your "good" technology function? Why should the Iraqis put up with
>an invasion and occupation to provide us with cheap oil to make our
>"good" technology function? I mean, where exactly do they get those
>materials to make those "good" cell phones that allow people to be
>brought into conatct with each other? It seems to me that people
>have been contacting and communicating with each other for tens of
>thousands of years without the benefit of "good" technology such as
>cell phones.

So why don't you shut down your website and move to an off-the-grid shack and till the soil?

Doug



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