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Dear Editor,
That was a very perspicacious
article of Madeleine Bunting's
in today's Guardian (Threats,
fear and control), providing
a glimpse into the
breadth and depth of the
crisis we are in.
A glimpse that must incline
many to assume that we are
witnessing, from our
comfortable bubble of
prosperity, the final
decades of civilisation,
perhaps along with the
depressing realisation that
this bubble of prosperity has
the same origin as the crisis
itself- thus preventing
us from doing anything about
it.
The origin I'm referring
to is a socio-economic order
still deeply rooted in our
primitive, "more animal
than human" nature.
Considering what Darwin taught
us about man's animal origins,
this should hardly surprise
us. But like Christian
fundamentalists, we are not
facing up to it (except when
it is safely compartmentalised
in a natural science).
Why? Because doing so would
undermine many of our
seemingly vital interests,
along with many of OUR
religiously held beliefs,
values, attitudes and
(material) aspirations.
Yours sincerely
Roger Hicks
P.S. It also occurs to me that
Ms Bunting's undifferentiating
"respect" for single
mums may be one of the reasons
we have so many of them.
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