[Buddha-l] The mess in America & the world

[jkirk]

Over and beyond Obama & US politics, I just have to add this:

Financial institutions, Wall St spin-meisters, and the various media just
keep on yakking about economic development, as if it's the panacea for all
the world's problems. Continuous econ. development and greed for ever
increasing profits, based on endless consumption of resources, is the cause
of our problems today. 
But will the world finally stop and think about this, in time? I doubt
it--they and everything else-- will eventually just stop.

No cheers,
Joanna
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On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 08:56 -0700, Jim Peavler wrote:

...Don't worry about your retirement, Jim. The economy is resilient and
fundamentally healthy. The proposed 15% increase in base military spending
(which does NOT include any of the spending for the illegal invasion and
occupation of two sovereign nations, perhaps soon to be joined by a third)
will dramatically increase the national debt in the US, but debt is just a
sign of vibrancy and resilience. The fact that the stock market is
plummeting worldwide is just a temporary correction, just as the fact that
the average temperature of the earth is rising more dramatically than even
the gloomiest scientists predicted five years ago is just a natural
meteorological cycle. 

If you start feeling a little anxious, just remind yourself that Rudy
Giuliani has said that America has the best health-care system in the world,
and Mitt Romney has said that America is the greatest nation that has ever
existed in the history of the earth. (Ever noticed how rhetorical inflation
always compensates for economic and psychological
depression?)

Shunryu Suzuki supposedly said, "Everything is perfect just as it is, but
that doesn't mean it couldn't be better." The Republicans are telling
Americans that everything is perfect just as it is, and this clown Obama is
telling us they'll get even better if he's elected.
Between the Republicans and Obama, we seem to have a Zen master (American
style). 

--
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico

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