[Buddha-l] Withdrawal of the senses

[Joy Vriens]

Hi Joanna,

>Couldn't agree with you more on this, Joy. Thanks also for posting this 
>special reference. It underlines what I have thought for years: that the 
>variety of capitalism, if not capitalism per se, is indirect or direct 
>violence to anyone who loses in the competition that is so vaunted as a 
>positive way of life here. The system that produces and promotes this way of 
>life is a version of Hell that the ancients had not a glimmer of. 

Unfortunately it iis not only seen as a positive way in your country. Our future candidate for the French presidency, the "libéral" Nicolas Sarkozy, is a great admirer of the United States. What he admires most is the possibility there to come form nowhere and to move to the top, or the other way round ("on peut partir du bas de l’échelle et monter très haut, ou bien le contraire"), not questioning in the least the model of a society where everyone fights their way to the top, instead of focussing on solidarity. 

Joy 
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