Re: Back to the 21st Century, was Re:...Vulnerable Planet...

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Lou says:

>  >Peoria for the bulk of the population.) Yammer about the Aztecs or any
> > other pre-capitalist society is about as useful as handing out _The Lord
> > of the Rings_ in pamphlet form at factory gates.
> >
> > Carrol
>
> Is that what I am doing, yammering? Doug Henwood accused me of
> anti-modernism of the unabomber kind. To answer him, I demonstrated that
> Aztec Mexico was a better place to live for its average inhabitant than
> Mexico City today.

Aztec Mexico may have been a better place than Mexico City by some
standards of measurement (e.g., air pollution), but I doubt that
today's ordinary Mexicans, in or out of Mexico City, really agree
with you.

Yoshie