On  2 May 97 at 7:00, Juan Carlos Garelli wrote:

> [...] Thus, this tends to become a repository of wishful thinking without
> any influence on our ways to see life from Chomsky's perspective. [...]

I'm _very_ glad you said this, Juan Carlos.  I suspect that many of
the folk who have left this community did so because they expected
different content than has so far appeared.

With all respect to other members here, i've been disappointed to
find that most posts have been on ...mmm, let's say less-important
aspects of NC's thought.  He emphasises political organisation as
the only possible way to create change.  Without change, any
discussion is at most preamble and at worst a way to drain off
productive energy. Yet so far we're not talking much about the
bread-and-butter issues.

NC holds up the candle to light our path, but it is we who have to
walk it.  And we can't take our first steps sooner than now.

If the health of a society is measured by how well and sparingly it
meets the non-pathological needs of all its members, i cannot
think of one major society today that qualifies as healthy.  Most
seem to me to be "cancerous":  the wellbeing of the whole body
being sacrificed to the (temporary) wellbeing of a few
out-of-control "cells".  I'd love to be shown wrong: it would give
us a model to follow.  Anyone know of one?

Anyone care to start the ball rolling toward a description of
change that we might actually be able to successfully promote?  I
would urge that we avoid proposals that would require people to
suddenly undergo significant personality changes in adulthood.
Whatever we do has to account for self-interest, greed, willful
ignorance, stupidity, and sloth.

=margaret
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Margaret Tarbet / [log in to unmask] / Cambridge Massachusetts USA
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me?  But if I am
only for myself, what am I? ... And if not now, when?
 -- Rabbi Hillel, called The Babylonian (ca. 60 BCE)