Re: capitalist religion (was: NANO: _Forbes_ cover story)

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Jul 22 2001 - 15:51:55 MDT


Jerry Mitchell wrote:
>
> >Barbara wrote:
> >
> >I'd like to live in a world where every person was guaranteed basic food,
> >shelter, and medical care.
>
> Well luckily, you are free to help all that you feel could use it, but your
> not free to take your crusade to save the world (children, homeless,
> crippled, etc....) and make everyone else finance it.

Although I would point out that the very concept of others
financing something inherently presupposes a world of basic
scarcity. This is not the world we are aiming to create.
Perhaps we should begin to think and act more in terms of what
we wish to transform the world into rather than what was or is
now.

- samantha



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