is it ok to be luddite

[Paranoid]

What about Earth First? Some of their tactics could be granted as terrorism.
yet their goal is far from that. There was an interesting scientist on the
CBC last night (radio) Steven Pinker. I have read some of his works on
genes. Here he was speaking of how violent genes cannot be found.  There is
no gene that makes a man shoot someone. And, at the same time, if this gene
was found it would be necessary to have it in each and every soldier who
goes to war. There is no difference in gene structure between those who
shoot people in the name of their country and those who shoot people in the
name of a drug trade on the street.
Yet, there is a difference between those who use terrorism to save the world
around us, the natural world which we should not be screwing with anyway,
and those who shoot one another in the name of demorcacy or.....who is
better.
Child games.



Jeffrey Ross: editor, www.subterran.com  -- making the world a little
smaller.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jedrzej Polak" <jedpolak at mac.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>; <jbor at bigpond.com>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 12:44 PM
Subject: re: is it ok to be luddite


> jbor writes:
>
> > Of course, with Greenpeace some of the activities in which its members
> > engage verge uncomfortably on terrorism at times
>
> If we agree that terrorism is violence toward private citizens, public
> property, and political enemies promoted by a political group to achieve
or
> maintain supremacy, the good folks from Greenpeace cannot be regarded as
> terrorists because 1. their goals are far from political; 2; they do not
> strive to achieve or maintain supremacy. If you think otherwise, I would
> gladly see the examples of Greenpeace political terrorism (or any kind of
> terrorism at that!). Let us not try to overgeneralize, or soon we'll call
> Gandhi a moral terrorist!
>
> Best
>
> JP
>