----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown at michiganlegal.org>
Proposition, which I am not going to defend: A major, if not _the_ major goal of a socialist regime in any industrialized nation is to slow practically to zero the rate of innovation. Given basic needs, innovation in products or in production techniques is (except under extraordinary circumstances) destructive of human well-being.
Carrol
^^^^^^ CB: Sounds like a good thought. I'll defend it.
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Ok.
The revo happens and communism is established across the globe.
However [yes, there's always going to be an however :-)], several major diseases have no substantive cure and or mitigation strategies. Lots of toxic waste is still ruining countless numbers of ecosystems and food webs. You see where this is going?????????????
The notion that innovation should stop, ever, is utterly reactionary and stupid. It's like demanding evolution to stop eons before the sun goes out.
I suspect Carroll would get along just fine with William F. Buckley on this one
:-)
Ian