Re: Advice for the Enlightened One

[Siddharth Chatterjee <siddhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Rahul Mahajan wrote:

> Boddhisatva:
>
> >        Let's say the people's war (of some sort) is successful.  Peru
> >tries to industrialize.  The capitalist nations embargo, the currency is
> >made worthless externally and the people's factories cannot produce for
> >export.  The government of Peru then pegs the currency to the US dollar,
> >accepts US currency, and legalizes the production of concentrated coca
> >(implicitly for export), under controlled conditions.  Clearly the U.S. goes
> >nuts, but could the western capitalists resist the temptation of the legal
> >flow of all that drug money, as the coca cartels send their dollars in to
> >buy goods legally?
>
> (snip)
> >        I am absolutely not implying anything about the PCP, but I'm sure
> >they will have something to say on this.  Does our new Turkish subscriber
> >have anything to put in?
>

Rahul
> I am getting really sick of your constant slurs on various Third Worlders.
> Why don't you take this racist crap somewhere else? While you're doing
> that, maybe you could read a book about how the global economy works before
> subjecting us to any more of your bigoted, ignorant pro-Western ravings.
>

Damn! I thought I was christened as "the Enlightened One" by our
ethereal physicist. Boddhi, for some reason this honorable and honorary
title has been transfered to you. You must take all appropriate care
and live up to it. Otherwise, the title may be taken away
>from you in the future. You raise some serious issues in your post that
should be addressed. After several days of diatribes against "every
little third-world" movement, our Rip-Van Winkle scientist is suddenly
being overcome by pangs of conscience and is re-discovering his roots
so to speak. Maybe he should approach another Alex Hailey (author of
Roots and to whom Malcolm X related his autobiography).


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