globalization

[Teufelsdröckh]

Jane Sweet wrote:
> 
> Teufelsdröckh wrote:
> >
> > A social contract is different than a bill of exchange. The pro-global
> > capitalists here are ignoring this.
> 
> Let's get something straight. Play the argument not the
> person. Calling me or the lovely cfa or the gentleman Mr.
> Paul or anyone else a pro-global capitalist after the
> bullshit spewed here about pro-global capitalists is not a
> nice way to go about having an constructive debate. Calling
> people blind or foreclosing the discussion because you don't
> like the direction it is going in by suggesting that your
> interlocutor needs to go and ask Pynchon his personal
> opinion is getting us anywhere. The facts gentleman, the
> facts, the texts, not the BS.

Please accept my most sincere apology. I did not realize that it was
unfair to infer that your arguments in favor of global capitalism meant
that you yourself are a pro-global capitalist. An arrogant leap of
deduction on my part, which I truly regret. I was also unclear that what
I and others wrote is "BS," as you quaintly characterize it (does that
stand for "Broderick Slothrop"? -- in any case, I am under the
impression that it is meant as a negative assessment). As for your
facts, I do not dispute them. They can be selected and interpreted in
many ways to great pleasure or severe apoplexy. Or they can be taken as
personal attacks and not addressed at all.

Let me restate: We are in a global economy, from which we surely
benefit. (As a writer, Pynchon, for example, can not avoid the fact that
vulgar corporations control publishing, and that he thereby makes even
more money than he might have otherwise; ambivalence runs through all of
his work; but to characterize it as mere satire implies to me that
Pynchon is a mere jester in the court of corporate feeders, and I think
there is more to his work than that.) Anyway, the challenge is to
continue to improve the regulating of such an economy to the benefit of
the people on both sides of the deal, not just enrich the bankers on one
side and the thieves on the other. FTAA and the like sidestep that
challenge with the belief that where industry is made more free to
pursue profits, only good will follow. Governments turn over their
social responsibilities to capitalists. I don't think that is good. It
is the opposite of progress.

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Teufelsdröckh