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Date: | Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:58:34 EDT |
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In a message dated 6/15/99 6:39:46 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
[snip, delete, snip, chop] [adequately responded to by Bill]
>I've said many times here that I refuse to spend my life fighting a
>fight I believe cannot be won. So if I were to spend my life
>"standing together, working together, sharing weal and woe," I would
>*only* be doing it to experience this alleged best of all possible
>feelings, a sort of socialist beta endorphin high.
I've tried almost all of them. The socialist beta-endorphin one is a very
healthy one. No hangover to speak of.
>That's what I have
>claimed you guys are actually doing. From my POV, then, it would be
>unethical for me to join you, especially given that I think there *is*
>a way to achieve the socialist goal, which is consistently, and
>predictably (by Chomsky's model), ignored.
Are you perhaps slanderously suggesting that Noam wants to reform capitalism?
But let's not argue that. I like a short clarification of the way your "way
to achieve the socialist goal. Maybe I have been ignoring it, or at least I
have lost that thread in the fabric of this conversation. I'd like you to sum
up if you could.
john korber
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And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountain's green?
And was the Holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Amongst these dark satanic mills?
Bring me bow of burning gold
Bring me my arrows of desire
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of Fire.
I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land."
-William Blake ( quite a character in the context of his time. )
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