tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post112005129893264360..comments2023-09-26T02:09:58.787+10:00Comments on diogenesian discourse: Make Poverty History - a G8 CircusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1120518440462868072005-07-05T09:07:00.000+10:002005-07-05T09:07:00.000+10:00Gabriele, welcome. Thanks for sharing this informa...Gabriele, welcome. Thanks for sharing this information with us. Your blog and your website both rock! Big time!<BR/><BR/>Your generation will have to try to fix what mine broke. On behalf of all Boomers, I apologise. We were (and still are) utterly selfish arseholes.<BR/><BR/>I have blood on my own hands, and no amount of washing will ever remove it. My blog is my attempt to do penance. Your site and your blog are an inspiration and a source of hope for the whole planet.<BR/><BR/>Now go and give your ego a cold shower! :-)<BR/><BR/>Urban Fox, thanks for the link. I now wish I'd included <A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1510808,00.html" REL="nofollow">a link to Monbiot's brilliant piece</A> as well.The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1120298508496262842005-07-02T20:01:00.000+10:002005-07-02T20:01:00.000+10:00You know what I like about you, Kent? It's that y...You know what I like about you, Kent? It's that you take the time to challenge me rather than just dismissing what I say as being wrong/stupid, etc. And I thank you for that.<BR/><BR/>Now, I agree that Canada is probably the least evil G8 member country. But they are participating in the evil empire which is the G8. Maybe they are an influence for good in there and maybe not. I don't know about that.<BR/><BR/>You said <I>"There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that modern capitalist life ruins everything: the environment, the lives of others, etc, I admit. But it's more overwhelming to try and live any other way. How do you do it? How can you do it?"</I><BR/><BR/>Excellent point and excellent question, Kent. I raised this very issue with a couple of people at the National Nonviolence Gathering and whilst we had no answers, we recognised that it is a huge problem because not only does it turn most of us into hypocrites but it also robs us of our integrity. I still haven't found any answers to this dilemma. (And yes, I will make this a blog post - thanks for the reminder.)The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1120210301891692902005-07-01T19:31:00.000+10:002005-07-01T19:31:00.000+10:00That wasn't clear - I meant I am well sure I harbo...That wasn't clear - I meant I am well sure I harbour 'aristocratic tendencies'. I admit to ignoring the plight of the starving masses in the African country of the moment, and spending $68.75 on CDs. I work for an evil international superconglomerate, and love it.<BR/><BR/>What can one do but join the world of hypocrisy? There's a challenge for you, good material for a post - answer that. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that modern capitalist life ruins everything: the environment, the lives of others, etc, I admit. But it's more overwhelming to try and live any other way. How do you do it? How can you do it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1120209951604713872005-07-01T19:25:00.000+10:002005-07-01T19:25:00.000+10:00Oh but Gerry, I am sure, and I'm not at all ashame...Oh but Gerry, I am sure, and I'm not at all ashamed.<BR/><BR/>I grant you the Canadian point - still, I was referring to the 'unspeakable crimes', ones which happened when Canada was very much a part of the British possessions - and perhaps a little under the French. Nonetheless, the modern nation has some responsibility for its history as part of an overlying empire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1120172972030460722005-07-01T09:09:00.000+10:002005-07-01T09:09:00.000+10:00Canada didn't continue the mistreatment and dispos...Canada didn't continue the mistreatment and disposession of its indigenous people after it became a "sovereign" nation? <BR/><BR/>Canada didn't take part in expanding and maintaining the British Empire?<BR/><BR/>Canadian corporations are somehow non-psychopathic? They are benign? They don't ruthlessly exploit everyone and everything in order to win profits for their shareholders? <BR/><BR/>Canada isn't part of G8 and other economic clusterfucks, pack raping the majority world in the name of "development" and "progress" when really it's all about exploitation of the poor for the benefit of the rich (in this case rich Canadians)?<BR/><BR/>Conrad Black not a Canadian? He is not a modern corporate buccaneer?<BR/><BR/>Are you sure you don't harbour a few aristocratic tendencies yourself, Kent? (Don't go getting all precious on me now, boy! :-)The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1120156588978403922005-07-01T04:36:00.000+10:002005-07-01T04:36:00.000+10:00The only blood Canadians have spilt on the imperia...The only blood Canadians have spilt on the imperial slaughterhouse floor is that of polar bears, methinks!<BR/><BR/>/dragging your post off-topicAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com