[A-List] Gary North's two essays

[Hudsonmi@xxxxxxx]

Two GREAT essays, Anne. I bet that the readers of A-list, like me, had to read it to believe it!
    I can only add the following thought to your posting of Gary North's excellent essays.
    Late in the Middle Ages, I was told many years ago, mathematicians sought to calculate the timing of the Day of Judgment by figuring out (1) the area of the earth, in square miles, and (2) the growth of the Christian population throughout history, so as to figure out (3) at what point, when the dead were raised and stood shoulder to shoulder, they would fill out the entire area of the earth.
    This would be the latest time the Day of Judgment would arrive, if they all were to stand shoulder to shoulder. Of course, it assumed that being "incorruptible," they all would take up the same space as a living human (rather than fitting conveniently onto a pinhead).
    This is the kind of mathematics of exponential growth one gets into if one is drawn into literalism. 
    By the way, a prison guard at Riker's Island mental hospital here in New York once told me that once the prisoners or patients begin talking about the Book of Revelation the guards know that they've gone over to the Dark Side.
    (Sorry if I've offended anyone, I'm only repeating what I've heard.)
    My only conclusion is that all fundamentalism is evil, whether it be Christian, Jewish, Islamic or Stalinist. North makes clear how anti-social, selfish, and basically anti-Christian the fundamentalist movement is. It's obvious to me that those who identify themselves the people who were plucked out in the movie actually should be sent to hell.
    The best attitude, though, is the Buddhist one. This must be their first human incarnation up from the lower animal world, and they have plenty more lifetimes to go around before they get fully humanized. 
    My conclusion, Anne, is that we've got to begin writing a political comedy show.

    Michael Hudson