aw. RE: aw. RE: aw. RE: aw. RE: Why did Elser plant the bomb?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Is capitalism fascist?  A genuine question.  I'm not sure of the answer.  Few have trouble finding the fascistic tendencies of the Bush/Cheney administration. 
But the bio-tech bloc, orgasmic over the staggering amounts of money to be made via stem-cell research, is equally happy with Obama.  I'm right there with them:  I want them to find technologies to help paralyzed people walk, even if they get stinking rich in the process.  

Just as the Nazis pushed (Aryan) motherhood, the bio-techies are pushing the commodification of babies.  They don't care if the babies end up in the hands of gay or straight couples or affluent single people, it's the sale price that matters.  In that sense, they can appear socially progressive.  A gay couple drinking (expensive) Free Trade coffee while pushing their acquired (via fertility docs, payments to lawyers, poor people, etc.)baby in an (expensive) stroller brings sanctimonious tears of joy to these folks.  Again, I'm right there with them.  I think it's real progress that gay couples can start families.   One thing you won't see in the movies is a likeable protagonist having an abortion. Forget that abortion is legal. There've been a bunch of movies (Knocked Up, Juno) that add a veneer of hipness to the Right-to-Lifer's message.  The bio-techies are great at making their retro message appear progresive.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
>Sent: Feb 16, 2009 7:40 AM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: aw. RE: aw. RE: aw. RE: aw. RE: Why did Elser plant the bomb?
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>Well, at least the diet-manuals of the Nazis were full of sentences like
>"Dein Körper gehört nicht dir, dein Körper gehört dem deutschen Volk!"
>(Your body does not belong to you, your body belongs to the German people).
>Add the latest possibilities of wonderful bio-technology and you see where 
>all this is going ... Where are my smokes? Kai
>
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>> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:05:40 -0500
>> From: kelber at mindspring.com
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: RE: aw. RE: aw. RE: aw. RE: aw. RE: Why did Elser plant the bomb?
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>> Is "physical fitness a mission of the state" fascist? How about this take: In opposition to ferocious lobbies by capitalist agribusiness conglomerates
>> and fast food empires that push their high-fat,artery-clogging wares, leading to an obesity epidemic; beleaguered public health officials desperately try to get some health-related laws on the book: banning restaurants from using trans-fatty acids, maybe getting a little funding for physical ed, all based on the idea that the government ought to take an active role in public health. Fascism?
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>> Laura
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>>>From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen lorentzen at hotmail.de
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>>>3) To consider "pysical fittness a mission of the state" is indeed fascist.
>>>