god!!! i WAS only joking!!!! clothes, ok,
important...but, key to this is actually washing your
dirty little critical geography bodies once in a
while.
--- Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes but is that a reason to wear them? To take an
> very extreme example
> wearing a black armband and swastika in 1930s
> Germany also
> likely conveyed status and power on the wearer. But
> it also said
> something about the wearer - one of 2 things, either
> they were
> cowed by the system and wore it because they had to,
> or they
> really supported the system then. Few rebelled
> (dared to rebel),
> some Jews, pacifists, Jehovahs Witnesses, and I
> guess a few
> other groups I don't know about but apologise for
> their omission,
> did not go along with the system.
> Of course 1930s Germany is extreme - the penalty for
> not going
> along was a rather nasty death. Although capitalism
> can be
> blamed albeit rather indirecly, for killing
> millions, thru effects of
> poverty, malnutrition, disease, also overeating etc
> in the Western
> world.
> Like most powerful systems of their kind, Nazism
> then and
> Globalised capitalism today have a few things in
> common,
> 1) their possibly fatal effects on non-cooperators
> 2) power to the cooperator, likely wealth too
> 3) However hope too as they contain theseeds of
> theior own
> demise. With the nazis it was the aim to take on the
> rest of the
> world militarily. Glob Capitalism also takes on the
> vast majority of
> the world in that i impoverishes them, whilst
> concentrating wealth
> ever more regressively. In 1939 we had to wait ca. 4
> years for them
> to overreach themselves, and another 2 to finish the
> job; I give G
> cap a few years or decades and if wealth is not
> redistributed again,
> it may have just to many enemies for its survival
> too. Meanwhile I
> hope to avoid wearing its uniform.
>
> On 20 Feb 01, at 13:23, Steven Cummins wrote:
>
> > Yep suits do convey status and power on the
> wearer..perhaps
> > thats the reason why no-one takes any notice of
> critical
> > geographers. Get yersel' down to Savile Row
> now.....
> > ...................................
> > Steven Cummins, Research Fellow
> > MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit,
> > 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ
> >
> > Tel: (0141) 357 7542, Fax: (0141) 337 2389
> > E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> >
>
>
> Hillary Shaw, P/G Geography, University of Leeds
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