[lbo-talk] cushy life

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jan 18 12:15:56 PST 2005


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>The choice that confronts many is not between security, comfort, and
>pleasure on one hand and insecurity, discomfort, and pain on the
>other hand, however. The choice for many is between more security,
>more comfort, and more pleasure for themselves and their families in
>the present and more security, more comfort, and more pleasure for
>all in the future, under the conditions where choosing the latter
>leads to less security, less comfort, and less pleasure for
>themselves and their families at least for a short term (maybe
>indefinitely), on top of the fact that choosing the latter may not
>actually help to bring about them at all. Nevertheless, choosing
>the former doesn't ensure their permanence and may in fact lead to a
>worse future than choosing the latter.

Thanks! I hadn't realized all that!!

Doug



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