[MD] Report on Gold

[Ian Glendinning]

I think Gav and Rebecca are right ...

9/11 or oceans of plastic waste or banking crisis .... cock-up or
conspiracy .... action or failure or failure to act .... causation on
this scale is never simple .... time spent debating it is waste itself
(except to learn the lessons of history). ie that's 20/20 hindsight as
Bob called it - it tells you what happened, but not future causes -
courses of action.

The "cause" of sustainable progress in the direction of "what is good"
comes from individual action enlightened by the knowlege of what is
good.

Creative destruction (of established order) helps, so long as we don't
destroy babies whilst we're throwing out the bathwater. It's the
reason I don't subscribe to collectve revolutions. Collective good
comes from the net result of individual action by people with a
collective understanding of the good.

Education, education, education, plus
Feedom, freedom, freedom.
Ian

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Rebecca Temmer
<ratemmer.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm with you Gav, I've always like mangoes.
>
> I don't know what goes on in the halls of power and don't know if I really
> fancy having that information, honestly.
> Here are the options though: the most powerful country in the world is
> either too stupid and mismanaged to stop a bunch of rag-tag bandits
> from stealing a plane and driving it into a building in the middle of a
> major city... or they let it happen.
> This was no tragic accident... but regardless.
> Another pin prick I had tonight watching another parody of Sarah Palin: Who
> are the "stereotypical" people that vote Republican?  Those rural,
> backwater, gun-toting, farming, child-bearing Americans...  the ones who are
> best equipped and positioned to withstand an onslaught if things do hit the
> fan?  Not the liberal, book-readin', philosophizin', corporate, citiots.
>
> But perhaps this will come to an impasse: Food for Though?  Better than Guns
> for Oil.
>
> R
>
>
> --
> "The martyrs go hand in hand into the area; they are crucified alone."
> Huxley.
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