From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 00:36:52 MDT
Randy wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:32:25 EDT, you wrote:
> Someone wrote:
>
>>Its government, not technology.
>
>
> It's (mainly) culture, not technology. After so many years, one must
> conclude that a govt is derived from the dominant cultures.
It is cultural. And much of the culture keeping hundreds of
millions in starvation, disease and very dire poverty is Western
culture. As long as Western culture is fundamentally based in
scarcity, in the notion there is not enough for everyone, the
West will act to secure as much as possible for itself. The
best of us will believe we are doing so in order to create
technology that fundamentally eliminates scarcity across the
planet. But, in point of fact, we pour food into the ocean
before we will give it to hungry nations. We sell them arms
with far less stringent controls than we bring in food and
medicine. Something is a bit wacky there.
- samantha
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