Which has been turned into the guiding metaphor for everything nowadays....
I'm not talking about Gods, angels, spirits, man, animals, and rocks.
I'm talking about shopping versus living.
Joanna
Carrol Cox wrote:
>Eubulides wrote:
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "joanna" <123hop at comcast.net>
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>>But there's a deeper point that this volume of productivity sucks our
>>lifeblood and destroys the earth. That we're making too much of things
>>designed to last ten minutes. And even that man might have been meant
>>for higher things than shopping.
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>>Joanna
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>>Meant by whom?
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>>This hierarchy thingy is really starting to bug me...
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>My last post was close to Joanna's -- except for this inclusion of
>humans being "meant for higher things." That bugs me as well. It is not
>necessary to resort to Platonism in order to reject the mad growth
>(progressive) dynamic of capitalism.
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>Carrol
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