> Which is what the right is now turning toward to the > left to a degree. > HimmlerCroft and His patriot Act I & II. They are > cementing their own > power, and turning ever more angry, spiteful, and > hateful at people who > don't hold their dogmatic views.
I do not disagree about the malicious/hateful thinking that spews from Fox, Limbaugh, all the Clinto-Bashers etc. Where I part company with most liberals is over the way they ignore the huge amounts of damage they have done to themselves, as described at: http://www.davidbrin.com/progressparadoxarticle.html Gautam and John are right about one thing, the flow of new ideas has slowed to a trickle... though NOT replaced by anything remotely interesting on the other side. Want my idea for a truly radical step? Banish financial secrecy. ALL of it. Starting with the Swiss Banks etc I dealt with in EARTH. I have talked to economists from Caltech to Harvard to London. Nearly all of them agree that secrecy is the prime enemy of an efficient market, vastly more damaging than taxes or regulation. That tanker that foundered and spilled a gazillion barrells of the most toxic kind of oil across spain & france? They STILL have not been able to find out who owned it! Nor found the wealth Marcos, Mobutu, or Saddam stole from starving citizens. Those who defend secrecy of ownership are not defending enterprise capitalism, they are defending feudal privilege. ===== . . * Please note. My email address of many years is changing FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... (Or else use [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
