Re: Don't blame the doctor-- (also known as"Don't Shoot the Messenger.")

In a message dated 5/12/99 12:04:03 PM, jgunning@squ.edu.om writes:

<< grand master plan of capitalist expansion that, in your view, leads
to crisis and war. Disputes over property and other rights, theft, and
robbery are inevitable in a property system. And, absent a world
government with teeth, these actions are likely on occasion to be
carried out by governments and to lead to war. But this does not mean
that capitalism is the cause of the war in any useful sense.>>

Capitalism inevitably leads to war. It is based on a paradigm that is 
inhumane, on the animal reality of survival of the fittest, dog eat dog, man 
against man. Cheating is a part of the picture, all you have to do, is get 
away with it. It allows for exploitation of one individual over others. It 
has profit as the focal point of the prism which is the ultimate reference 
point from which all action is based to the detriment of all other values. 
Thus the degradation of all life on the planet. You know, pollution, sweat 
shops, logging, extinction of species, nuclear bombs, etc. 

C'mon, this is 1999, and we are all grown up. What I am stating is obvious to 
a high school kid. Capitalism is a paradigm that is inhumane and leads to 
war, not only just because of the expansianism that is essential to 
capitalism, but even just to sell arms. We need to have wars to test our 
military output from time to time, so that other countries can see what we 
have for sale. Its worse than cannibalism, its more like vampirism. How much 
destruction will it take before people can see the obvious? It places 
everyone within the horns of a dilemma that is totally compromising: to 
survive, one must compromise one's integrity. It turns everyone into a whore, 
if not literally, figuratively. There are many people who still sell their 
daughters into prostitution. How do you account for this degradation?

Who are the biggest whores? The figureheads of state? Their police? Their 
armies? The politicians? 

Sovereign entities (gov'ts., nations, dictatorships, corporations, 
institutions) have
to survive too. They will kill to survive just like a wild animal. Sovereign 
entities depend on capitalism to survive along with whatever else is 
necessary: arms, military, force. It is clear to me that the existence of 
sovereign entities along with the invasiveness of capitalism are the causes 
of war.
										
					Tom Osher (bagelhole1)
										
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