Of course that doesn't follow unless you're the type that says "If you take an aspirin for your headache, it follows that you should take 1000 of them, and that would kill you!!!" ...
It's a simple point: personalization of crisis is a destraction tactic wielded by those who most ought to be watched. /jordan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here's the distraction: The personalization of crisis has been skewed towards a view of the world around us that says "don't worry about it (yet) it's not your problem" by, as you say, "...those who most ought to be watched."[hereafter referred to as "They" & "Them"]. I say there are other reasons to watch them, besides watching them use up all the resources.
I'm watching them stall, stutter, and start to spin out of control. [Multiple double entendres intended]
They have no plan to save "Technology" as *they* know it. (and profit from it.)
In my area (Monterey county, Ca.) Strawberries are the big money maker, another water intensive crop, like cotton. According to the book "Cadillac Desert", Marc Reisner (1986), the water supply in much of California is subsidized at 10 cents on the dollar... and those subsidies are due to run out soon. But hey, go ahead, wash your car regularly or it'll drive it's "value" down.
They don't have a plan, and they don't want us proles to have a clue. Because of that, nothing *will* happen until we need "1000 aspirin", and it's gonna kill us, unless humans *not* under corporate or "mind" control take the lead in reshaping the way society is structured.
A vanguard of concerned humanity, so to speak. ==================== [begin signature] The roots of repression are, and remain real roots; consequently, their eradication remains a real and rational job. What is to be abolished is not the reality principal, not everything, but such particular things as business, politics, exploitation, poverty.
To forget this is to mystify the possibilities of liberation." --Herbert Marcuse
Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at yahoo.com ===================================
----- Original Message ----- From: Jordan Hayes To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] anti-Suburban snobs, was petro-thusians
John Thornton asks:
> What do you think agribusiness does with that water?
In California? They grow crops that aren't needed (like cotton!) in preposterous places like the desert of the central valley. My point? Water isn't precious in California because of individual behavior, it's precious because it's wasted at the top. All 31 million Californians could stop using water ENTIRELY and there'd be an additional 4% available ... so why is this important? Because once "we all" feel bad about our behaviors, we neglect to point the stick at the real monster in the room.
Doug writes:
> the disparity seems especially egregious with cars; even
> a $2/gal, gas is preposterously cheap. The U.S would look
> rather different if gas were $5/gal.
Indeed: there'd be fewer poor people on the road. And the rest of us would spend a bigger proportion of our monthly budget on petrol. And the extra taxes collected would be used to fund the "wars" overseas. Don't kid yourself: the extra taxes collected would neither cut down on demand for gasoline nor would it help balance the budget.
Sure, the US would look a lot different. Not in a way I'd like to see it, though ...
Leigh Meyers writes:
> According to your line of thought we should wait till crisis
> personally affects us before responding.
Of course that doesn't follow unless you're the type that says "If you take an aspirin for your headache, it follows that you should take 1000 of them, and that would kill you!!!" ...
It's a simple point: personalization of crisis is a destraction tactic wielded by those who most ought to be watched.
/jordan
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