tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post112607349466474506..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Bush's Crimes Against HumanityDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-1126152617474011572005-09-07T21:10:00.000-07:002005-09-07T21:10:00.000-07:00I see what you mean Dale. I think the Marxists ca...I see what you mean Dale. I think the Marxists call this idea of progress as a force of nature reification if I'm not mistaken. The market fundies do the same with the market. I think my generation has been complacent. We grew up thinking we would have cities on the Moon and a cure for cancer by now and it would all just happen. Instead we have cities under water and fascism growing like cancer. Guess this is what happens when you ignore the real world and just play Half-Life all day. My username hints at what I fear. You know Asimov's story I assume. Sometimes I just feel like I'm waiting for the villagers to burn down the observatory and begin another great hopeless cycle of destruction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-1126116545720237932005-09-07T11:09:00.000-07:002005-09-07T11:09:00.000-07:00I didn't mean to imply progress is automatic -- I ...I didn't mean to imply progress is automatic -- I am <I>strongly</I> skeptical of such notions of "progress," which seem to me usually conservative justifications for complacency and triumphalist justifications for the dispensable privileges of the powerful. I just meant to conjure up the perspective of a possible future worth living in, which many are struggling to make. It helpd keep my spirits up in times like these. About progress, though, I'd be interested to hear what you think of a more extended piece I wrote about progress, entitled <A HREF="http://ieet.org/writings/Carrico20050105.htm" REL="nofollow">Progress As a Natural Force Versus Progress as the Great Work</A>. Thanks for your comments!Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-1126115988651084272005-09-07T10:59:00.000-07:002005-09-07T10:59:00.000-07:00Come what may, it now seems likely that George W. ...<I>Come what may, it now seems likely that George W. Bush and his Administration will be seen by history from the perspective of the better, more humane, more cosmopolitan, more democratic, more fair, more legitimate days to come</I><BR/><BR/>This seems to imply that progress is something automatic, that it can be counted on to happen, that "better days lie ahead". When I was young I thought this too. Things would progress automatically in some sense. But in my 36 years I've seen mostly stagnation or regression and Bush and the atavistic forces he represents seem to give the lie to this notion of progress. It saddens me and fills me with rage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-1126074839643554662005-09-06T23:33:00.000-07:002005-09-06T23:33:00.000-07:00-- evilqueen asks --- DONATE to the Hurricane Katr...-- evilqueen asks --- DONATE to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort --- http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ <BR/>--- or contact Red Cross at 1-800 HELP NOW (1-800-435-7669.) <BR/>--- Need more info? http://www.fema.gov/ -- http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/PublicSafety/Hurricane_Katrina_Recovery.shtml<BR/>http://velma17.blogspot.com/.-https://www.blogger.com/profile/16994226369860914648noreply@blogger.com