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"Dr. A. Ziolkowski" <[log in to unmask]>
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The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
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Tue, 13 May 1997 11:52:01 +0200
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To: R.D.Osborn, B.J.Callahan, H.Veeder, L.Libby, P.King, J.Karns, and
partisants.

Dear Chaps,
I wonder you know what is going on. My opinion, you suppose your only
problem is implementation, arenīt you? But - you think -, on the other
hand, you have good paid and socially acknowledge jobs and - more or less -
you take money for academic critics, e.g., for psychological anti-stress
social dydactics. If any action takes pace, it will be strictly limited,
within the limits of jobsī risk. You are sell to the system, you accept
this and stay within it. In the process of social change, you are a
problem, too.
An exemple of moral illness:
In Austria, where I am now, there are a lot of public discussions in
so-called democratic style, as "NATO - yes or no".
After the decline of the Soviet Union, there is the lack of "no"-proposals,
of course, and my only argument is constantly as follows: Give me the money
for few months and for work on a paper on an opposite position in the
matter of European security, bevor the public discussion starts. Nobody
reacts and the scheme of democratic referendum goes forwards, with the
shibboleth: "The Austrian access to the NATO or the war in Europa". As if
the decision making bodies were also personally involved in the play
"job-on-job-off", arenīt they?
I was born and educated in Poland. I had hated that system and,
consequently, changed it. Than, as political scientist, I visited Austria
and the United Kingdom. And I still wonder about a great disparity between
knowledge and action. May you help me in this matter?

---- Andrzej Ziolkowski, Dr.Phil.


>Richard D. Osborn wrote: <
>
> I would like to see some comment about the so-called "peace process" the
> mainstream media likes so much to talk about.
>
> What follows is the way I see that process:
>
> The propaganda peddlers working out of New
> York and Washington never tire of talking about the "peace process." When
> they aren't telling lies about the Middle East or eastern Europe, they
are
> spinning tall stories about "problems" in one of the many dictatorships
in
> Africa. When those cesspools of chaos loose their shine, they switch to
one
> of the dozens of other swamps of social, political or economic trouble
> bubbling around the world.
>
> Most Americans have no real sense of what this ever-churning "dance with
> death" is all about. The media, in the grand tradition of Orwellian
> doublespeak, keep calling it the peace process. In reality, of course, it
> is the greed-driven war process.
>/.../
> If the American people had a truly representative government, the
nightmare
> called globalism, the free-market ideology and the peace process would
> stop. Until that government comes into being, however, the nightmare will
> continue to unfold.
>
> One doesn't have to be a genius to know where it will all end. Will the
> Congress ever wake up and meet its responsibilities?
>
> --Richard D. Osborn
>

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