Re: Salon: The real enemies of the poor
Jim wrote:
One article expressing one persons opinions 49 articles expressing 49 peoples opinions.
Yeah, I know it was a bit of a tangent. But read any one of them at random and I'll bet you'll come across a lot of things you didn't already know. And rather than taking one side "globalism is good" or "globalism is bad" (like the Salon piece), the ones I've read give plenty of justification for pros and cons of all kinds. The real enemy of the poor is complacency. ~Faustine. On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Faustine wrote:
But there's no real meat here--it's the kind of thing that tells you just enough to make you feel like you know what you're talking about, but doesn't go nearly deep enough to be worth anything.
So what's on my summer reading list? The Institute for National Strategic Studies and the National Defense University just came out with a monstrously long (1124 pp.)two-volume compendium of essays: "The Global Century: Globalization and National Security" that explores the implications of globalism in 49 essays from every angle you can think of by a collection of genuine heavy hitters. I think I'll certainly be better off for having invested the time in reading it.
here's a link to the pdf:
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/books/GlobalCentury/globcencont.html
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Faustine wrote:
Jim wrote:
One article expressing one persons opinions 49 articles expressing 49 peoples opinions.
Yeah, I know it was a bit of a tangent.
But read any one of them at random
and I'll bet you'll come across a lot of things you didn't already know.
Maybe, I read a shitload of 'books of articles' from this government agency or that contractor on a variety of issues. Most of them don't change except on a scale measured in decades. But at the same time I added it to my list because there were several subjects on there I'm very interested in (always good to throw more wood on the fire ;). What I found amusing is that you read the Salon article (probably w/o great enthusiasm considering it is Salon after all) and you had another text of articles you hadn't read but had already decided it was a worthy read and that you'd get something out of it. Especially since it was such 'weighty' material in two different contexts. I've got a math book I'm wading through that's like that. It's about 40 articles and I've been reading it for about a year now. I don't intend to repeat Tesla's mistake. He typically would read all books by an author in one sequence, and read nothing else. He considered it a measure of his discipline. He received a book by Virgil and found it likable. So he proceeded to order a complete set of works. Only to discover that it was over a 100 books. Needless to say he wasn't amused. He bought them, read them, and then swore to never read another book again without first finding out how many books the author had written. Probably not any more popular a viewpoint now than a tad over a hundred years ago.
And rather than taking one side "globalism is good" or "globalism is bad" (like the Salon piece), the ones I've read give plenty of justification for pros and cons of all kinds.
I strongly want global trade and cultural exchange. I do not want global government or corporate enterprise. I want direct interaction of business in government to be prohibited.
The real enemy of the poor is complacency.
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At 05:53 PM 7/25/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
I strongly want global trade and cultural exchange. I do not want global government or corporate enterprise. I want direct interaction of business in government to be prohibited.
Great idea. As Frank Chodorov suggested during the McCarthy Era. "Worried about communists in government jobs? Just get rid of the government jobs." If we get rid of the government, no business involvement. Only practical way of accomplishing same. DCF ---- "The government is just people." "People, my eye, they're Democrats." --The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
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