Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: suburbia

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why do we have to choose between wife burning and toxic waste?

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Ken Hanly wrote:
> So do you have some good comparative statistics re life expectancy,
> stillbirths, etc. in traditional versus "modern" societies.
> And do you think that we should not violently reconstruct traditional
> societies by banning such practices as binding women's feet,
> clitoral mutilation, widows joyously throwing themselves on hubbies funeral
> pyre  etc.etc.etc.
>
>      Cheers, Ken Hanly
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:43 AM
> Subject: [PEN-L:14213] Re: Re: Re: suburbia
>
>
> > >Clearly you're suffering from malignant alienation. We need to reduce
> > >the human population by 90% and all get back to the land, tilling the
> > >soil from dawn to dusk, literacy a fading memory, and antibiotics
> > >too. Backbreaking work and short lives, but at least we'd be rooted
> > >in soil and place.
> > >
> > >Doug
> >
> > Antibiotics? In fact most diseases that antibiotics were designed to
> combat
> > were brought on by the kind of violent and senseless reconstruction of
> > traditional societies where illnesses such as dysentery were rare.
> >
> > Louis Proyect
> > Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
> >
>

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

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