Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00400)

Did I mention subsidy would be a solution for the
problems in Africa? Please point me out where, because
I can’t find such statement in my previous email. I
criticize the money invested in the construction of
weapons for mass destruction, in the same time that
millions of people all over the world are starving. I
think this is ‘paralogo’ not logic.

Your affirmation that there is no solution is quite
pessimist and is based on what? For every problem
there is a solution, but is there interest to find the
solution? Or some countries can maintain their wealthy
status on the cost of the poverty of other countries?

To live in a world with so many problems and to be
only concerned with personal satisfaction is an
alienation or not? A heartless system will generated
heartless people.

We don't have a political system build upon noble
principles really able to help a better development of
humanity. The capitalism, communism, etc,
are a fallacy. A practical change to happen, and help
humanity necessarily has also to happen in the system.


By the way I don’t pay rent, and I don’t send money
for Zimbabwe as well. But I did received a crazy email
from a Zimbabwe's farmer.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and
most fatal ailment of all republics.
Plato

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of
variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of
equality to equals and unequal alike.
Plato

Erica Letzerich

--- stevestubbs <stevestubbs@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Erica Letzerich
> <eletzerich@y...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > We are civilized!
> > 
> > In Africa millions of people die every year of
> > starvation.
> 
> I must beg to differ. The problem with Africa is
> that most of the 
> problems there are the result of deliberate and
> conscious human 
> action. Religious wars, religious superstition,
> slavery, racism, 
> tribalism, genocide, extinction of wildlife, the
> destruction of the 
> farm system, and the refusal to stop the spread of
> HIV infection are 
> not cosmic phenomena visited on them by voodoo gods,
> nor are they are 
> perfidy of the middle class in some country other
> than your own. 
> Unfortunately, the same general observation can be
> made of other less 
> wealthy areas of the world, although religious
> superstition is the 
> main problem in the MIddle East rather than
> destruction of wildlife 
> or destruction of farms. If anyone suggests that
> these folks need to 
> behave themselves we are told that this is their
> great culture we are 
> talking about and that we cannot and must not
> question their great 
> culture.
> 
> The reason this is significant is that it highlights
> the naivete of 
> the idea that the problems will vanish if somehow a
> subsidy is paid. 
> I would believe in the subsidy solution if it had
> not already been 
> tried fifty years ago and failed. All subsidies are
> is money paid by 
> the poor people in rich countries to the rich people
> in poor 
> countries. Africa's problems are not solved by
> outside intervention 
> because as a practical matter they cannot be solved
> by outside 
> intervention. Nobody fixes it because nobody knows
> how.
> 
> I was listening to an economist lecture a few months
> ago and he said 
> the real problem is that 200 years ago everyone was
> poor and now a 
> few people have managed to improve their lot. From
> a certain ultra 
> liberal perspective that is totally unacceptable, so
> that we have to 
> return to a state of universal destitution. If we
> state that case 
> honestly it makes the people who promulgate it look
> like a bunch of 
> cranks. So its purveyors reverse the facts of
> history and subtly 
> imply that there was a Golden Age in which everyone
> was rolling in 
> money, and then somehow a few robbers stole from the
> many. This 
> seems to be unknown to historians, but that is
> because they are sold 
> out to the oligarchy, etc., and on it goes. This
> fantasy even made 
> its way into the mythologies of most countries. It
> is similar to the 
> kind of dishonest rhetoric religious theosophists
> are always using to 
> defend irrational ideas of their own.
> 
> So here is a question for you. I know you are not
> one of those folks 
> who pound their chest and clutch their gut and don't
> do anything. So 
> how do you eat and pay the rent now that you have
> sent all your money 
> to Zimbabwe?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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=====
Erica Letzerich
ICQ- 16621711 
"The Truth will set you free, but first will make you miserable"





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