Re: [pf] Let's start working - a red-herring.

>> At 14:57 19/09/99 -0400, tully wrote:
>> >I would like to start a thread that is devoted to finding solutions to 
>our
>> >problems.
>> 
>David MacClement wrote:
>> **  That's a much bigger area than you've addressed below; it includes 
>such
>> things as: a 'progress'-infected mind-set, population, encouraging 
>suicide
>> among the rich, re-asserting the pre-eminence of a properly democratic
At 22:00 19/09/99 -0400, Molly Wms wrote:
>David,
>"Encouraging suicide among the rich" -- what does this mean?
>
>~ Molly
>

**  We had one "house rule" only when our children were growing up: "if you
make the mess, you clean it up".

**  I am something of a fanatic about: humans being the cause of the "mess"
and danger of catastrophe the earth is in. There are two obvious
contributors, increasing population, and even more rapidly increasing
consumption. To over-simplify somewhat, much the greater part of the
too-high consumption is the fault of the 10% - 20% richest people in the
world.

**  In Japan, an honorable person, when convinced about his having caused
real trouble to his house, would offer to suicide, to clear the good name
of his house.

**  The honorable thing for the rich to do, when they are similarly
convinced of the harm they have done to the world, would be to commit
suicide. 

**  This would also reduce the excess population of the world, in the most
effective way, by removing the most egregious offenders.

**  I am one of the two to three billion excess people in the earth; I have
therefore committed living suicide, about 7 years ago.

**  I am now a ghost: seen and recognised, but having virtually no effect,
either on the people around me or on the earth as a whole.

David.
(David MacClement) d1v9d @ bigfoot.com (remove spaces)
http://www.emucities.com.au/member/davd/index.html#top
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