Re: The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age
"Ola Wam" <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:55:26 +0100
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<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE> <P>Salaam aleykum</P> <P>Offcourse there is alot of progress made through capitalizm, but what kind of progress?</P> <P>in capitalizm there is only one incentive: PROFIT. the progress made through capitalizm is solely to gain profit! Medicines are developed only when people can gain money of them(like the AIDS medicine), weapons are made for profit, most of the technologicalprogress we see today is just feeding the pop-culture(cell-phones, DVD's, games+++).</P> <P>if the incentive for technological progress was to serve human kind(rather than to destroy it), we would be solving many of the problems we face today(feeding human beings, curing diseases etc.), there might not be need for these "anti-terrorist" machines, for the root of terrorism would not exist.</P> <P>developement should come through serving human kind, not greed... <BR><BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV>>From: "Laura" <[email protected]> <DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: [email protected] <DIV></DIV>>To: <[email protected]> <DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age <DIV></DIV>>Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:23:06 -0500 <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>Salaam Charmi, <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>Absolutely! You are right that the idea of social progress only being made through capitalism is ridiculous. Technology has made capitalists more money....but that is not the same thing at all, of course. <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>Advances have been made because humans could make them or needed to. And the idea that capitalism is the only way to fund it is ridiculous considering that many technological advances have been made under monarchies, dictatorships, and even in communist Russia. I mean, come on! <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>People just want to believe what is fed to them because if they thought any other way their lives might be to complicated. Of course I know I'm just preaching to the converted so I'll stop. <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>>Laura Hussain <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> ----- Original Message ----- <DIV></DIV>> From: Charmi Miller <DIV></DIV>> To: [email protected] <DIV></DIV>> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:36 PM <DIV></DIV>> Subject: Re: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> this argument... that without capitalism there is no technological or social progress is without basis. (obviously.) <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> charmi <DIV></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>MSN Messenger <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMANONO/2746??PS=">Den raskeste veien mellom deg og dine venner</a> Last ned gratis nå</html>