A member of the j18 discussion group believes that I've somehow
'stagnated' that list. I inquired as to HOW he thought I had done that and
he replied, as I understand him, that I had led them down something of an
intellectual bunny trail. Our exchange is presented below.
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20 messages a day? Not me! In fact, not the whole j18 list.
'Unfocused' and 'unrelated' posts? Not mine. I've made my objective
quite clear--to eliminate or at least minimize world poverty and injustice.
I've been similarly clear on HOW I believe it can be done, namely, by (a)
uniting the globe's activists via the Internet; (b) using that global unity
to oust the corrupt dictators in the more than 100 or so of our poorest
countries; and (c) replacing them with honest and competent leaders who are
committed to POLICIES that will enrich the poorest of their citizens.
Can any of this be accomplished by haranguing the dozen or so rich nations
on June 18 and carrying a few placards saying, 'Down With Capitalism'? If
so, certainly no one has explained it to us. Indeed, if those few rich
countries knew how to oust this line-up of dictators that's impoverishing
the 3rd world, does anyone really believe they wouldn't do it in a trice?
Think of the zillions to be made from selling to 3 billion
suddenly-affluent CONSUMERS in those 100-plus poorest countries!
Poverty is not a money-making business. J18, like 'progressives' in
general, is, in my view, aiming at the wrong target. The planet's
dictators are the problem, not the handful of affluent nations that have
managed to get rid of theirs.
But then it's so much easier to tilt at a windmill than at a fully-armed
tyrant, isn't it?
Charles
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At 04:39 PM 4/12/99 +0100, you wrote:
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>
>> And how am I preventing the other members of j18--including you--from
>>saying whatever they want, on any subject?
>>
>> Charles
>>
>
>by starting endless unfocused discussions that put people off the list as
>they don't want to receive 20 messages a day and find that most of them are
>not about june18 or directly related topics
>
>Javier
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