[Peace-discuss] 9/11

[Chuck Minne]

Well, as far as what to do goes, I’m like Chomsky, and I say that pejoratively, because I’m a no-solution guy too. I don’t think anything can really be done, I think its hopeless. I bitch, rail and protest only to salve my own conscience. And I suppose to hear myself talk. Otherwise, it’s all meaningless.
   
  If I thought anything could be done, here are some impossible things I would work to implement:
   
  Maintain a capitalistic system but with extremely tight government controls. Set an upper limit on personal wealth; say around $50,000,000. Break up the media conglomerates; limit the exposure of one media company to say around a combined viewer/reader total of 25,000,000. Make television time absolutely free for all “significant’ political candidates, what a can of worms that would be. Make health care universal, tightly controlled, with no insurance companies involved. Dismantle Homeland Security and legalize drug use. Make all corporate profits above a certain rate of return on capital, say 10%, be spent on “social welfare projects.”  Cut defense spending dramatically and allocate at least 50% of the cut toward finding ways to control the amount of sunlight hitting the earth (for I am convinced that global warming is past the tipping point and we are doomed unless a new technology can save us – existing schemes and methods are just a band-aid that will only postpone
 the disaster.)
   
  I’m probably missing a lot, but none of it is doable anyway. 
   
  The 9/11 perpetrators have gotten away with it and need not worry as long as the anti-war folks are so divided on the issue. I suspect that the anti-war establishment is loaded with government moles and agents for just that purpose; for the anti-war movement can be ignored, as it is by both parties, as long as the 9/11 conspirators are not exposed. And if the anti-war people do not expose them, nobody else will. 
   
  And the really ironic thing is that their exposure would cause such a constitutional crisis that we might be better off if they were never exposed. Tragically funny. 
   
  Did you ever consider that Chomsky might be a mole? Or how about Estabrook? Now there’s a conspiracy theory. 
   
  Makes no difference, nothing is going to be changed. At least not the way we want it. Hopeless. But it’s kind of fun trying – as long as you don’t hope.
   
Aren’t you sorry you asked?

Bob Illyes <illyes at uiuc.edu> wrote:  What, Chuck and Mark, do you propose
we should do to make the world better 


 
   
   
  
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