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To:    Guardian CiF
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The existing socio-economic environment is an evolutionary cul-de-sac
Date: Friday 29 June  07

 

In response to article by Polly Toynbee, "Brown can't talk like he does and ignore this debauchery", on the unacceptable differences in wealth and income in British society

Link to article and thread at The Guardian.


The REAL problem with the rich, especially the super-rich, is the grossly materialistic and wholly unsustainable values, attitudes and aspirations they embody, which the media publicize and glorify to the masses, who are thus encouraged to emulate them.

It is not just, or even primarily, a problem of social justice, but of sustainability, and thus SURVIVAL, on our finite and vulnerable planet.

We will not solve the Problem (and save ourselves) simply by taxing the rich more. We must go to the "root cause" of the Problem, which lies in the primitive, grossly materialistic values, desires, attitudes and aspirations (deeply rooted in man's animal nature and behaviour) on which our economy is founded and dependent - presenting us with the dilemma of a double bind.

It's time we stopped beating about the bush (Polly's speciality) and faced up to it.

2nd Post

Polly's fundamental mistake, which is central to New Labour, is in believing that the Dragon of free-market capitalism can be tamed, made sustainable and milked to provide for everyone's needs, if not desires. Our politicians, she believes, just need to get a better hold of the reins and give the brute more stick (e.g. higher taxes for the rich), so that it knows who's the boss.

Like all Social Democrats, she fails (or refuses) to recognise that the Dragon cannot possibly, will never, be tamed, but has a mind of its own (deeply rooted in man's animal nature and behaviour, which it has grown and developed specifically both to serve and exploit), and is hell-bent, in its dumb-animal stupidity, on carrying us towards our doom.

Gordon Brown wants to convince us more than ever that he can ride, steer and milk the beast, now from No 10, to SERVE the British people, but he is lying (to himself as well, no doubt). What he really wants (but cannot admit, certainly to us, and probably not even to himself) is POWER, the desire for which is rooted in the same animal nature that drives the Dragon.

But what to do about it, when we ALL feed and depend on dragons milk?

3rd Post

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