[Peace] Excellent letter to the NG, just saw it this morning.

[John W.]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 8:08 AM David Johnson via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

Great letter David !
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> David J.
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Yes, it really is.  Thank you for passing it on, Karen, to those of us who
don't get the News-Gazette.

John W.



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> *From:* Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] *On Behalf Of *Karen
> Aram via Peace
> *Sent:* Friday, August 02, 2019 6:53 AM
> *To:* David Green
> *Cc:* Peace
> *Subject:* [Peace] Excellent letter to the NG, just saw it this morning.
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> Over four decades, the globalized, financialized, high-tech economy has
> stagnated the incomes of over half of Americans, immiserating many, while
> making a mockery of social mobility amidst obscene accumulations of private
> wealth.
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> Consistent with this have been perpetual and ongoing “low-intensity” wars
> for economic domination, increased threat of nuclear war and
> species-threatening carbon-driven climate change, the latter exacerbated by
> all the above.
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> But these issues are too big to worry about, no less seriously address,
> and they might damage our fragile patriotic self-esteem, while distracting
> us from sports.
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> Moreover, these problems can’t be laid at the doorsteps of Illinois state
> government, youthful local thugs or “Chicago pols.”
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> That’s no fun for News-Gazette editors as they lay out the next chapter in
> our local morality play, in which good must inevitably triumph over evil,
> unless it’s a football Saturday.
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> But never fear, the STEM academic community has got this; that is, they’ve
> got the game-changing Discovery Partners Institute to lead us into the
> digital, artificially intelligent promised land.
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> Who needs a decent health care delivery system when we’ve got gadgets in
> an imaginary research pipeline? Who needs a decent standard of living and
> adequate housing when we’ve got visualization and “big data”? And what
> self-respecting University of Illinois professor or administrator doesn’t
> want to be hyped to high-tech heaven by ever-ebullient
> journalist/publicist/stenographer Julie Wurth?
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> Surely, the Golden Age is within us and upon us, if we just clap for
> Tinkerbell, charge our smartphones and refuse to grow old.
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> DAVID GREEN
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> Champaign
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