While A Few Poor Countries Are Catching

If You Look Back On The History Of The 20th Century, The 19th Century Or Even To The Ancien Régime Of The 18th, You Will See That First People Rebelled Against The Order Of The Things Because Of Lack Of Liberty, And Demanded More Freedom. And When They Got More Freedom, They Got Frightened, And They Desired More Security For A Change. After A While, They Started Complaining, Although More Secure, They Also Become More Dependent And Rule-bound.

There Are Other Ways Of Finding Satisfaction, Recipes For Human Happiness, Enjoyment, Dignified And Meaningful, Gratifying Life, Than Increased Consumption That Increases Production.

In Montreal, Where I Taught In 1970, I Met Many People. The Only Ones Who Said To Me They Were Canadians, Were Jews. All The Rest Were Scotts, Irish, English, French, Swedes.

Being Condemned By Fate To Perpetual Togetherness, We Better Make That Shared Fate Into Our Shared, Consciously And Gladly Embraced, Destiny.

Capitalism Proceeds Through Creative Destruction. What Is Created Is Capitalism In A 'new And Improved' Form - And What Is Destroyed Is Self-sustaining Capacity, Livelihood And Dignity Of Its Innumerable And Multiplied 'host Organisms' Into Which All Of Us Are Drawn/seduced One Way Or Another.