Re: Jiang Zemin / William Clinton Dialog Challenge

[Hyman Blumenstock <hystock@xxxxxxxxx>]

John Gelles wrote:
>
>         In the tradition of the Sawicky Challenge (on what
>         you would advise France to do on jobs and the Euro),
>         (which ended without Sawicky's award ), and of the
>         Kennedy tapes, (which recorded dialog during the
>         Cuban Missile Crisis -- recently published in a book),
>         the pundits of PKT are challenged to write the Zemin /
>         Clinton Dialog tape transcripts (or summaries).
>
>         The dialog between President Jiang Zemin of China
>         and President William Clinton of America will
>         take place for an hour or so this week.  You are
>         to record them now, well ahead of the event, and
>         report, not what they will say (unless you know), but
>         what they would say if they were wooden dummies
>         -- and you were the ventriloquist who put ideas in
>         heads and words in their mouths.
>
>         If you write in dialog format, you may use JZ for
>         President Jiang Zemin and WC for his American
>         friend.
>
>         You don't have to enter the challenge, (for which
>         the prize is passage on a slow boat to China), but
>         I will -- sometime Sunday after thinking about
>         what ought to happen after I'm dead between
>         China, America and their neighbors back on Earth.
>
>                John Gelles        email to:    myturn@xxxxxxxx
>                http://www.myturn.org   ;   http://www.rain.org/~jjgelles/

(After the preliminaries)

WC: Mr. President, we have come to the conclusion, that though we have
presented to the world a much happier environment than virtually
anywhere else the rest of thw world has known, we could demonstrate an
even better one, and will participate actively in helping the rest of
the world attain at least, one as comparable.

JZ: Mr. President, I'm all ears.

WC: A momentous event has occurred.  Our economic fraternity has
discovered a fundamental flaw in economic philosophy that places the
imaginary concept of Money above the Real requirements of Food, and that
for extremely obscure reasons. Money had been declared as scarce as Food
once was, as well as a requirement of accessing the Food supply,
maintaining the status quo of inaccessibilty to adequate Food that is
the cause, throughout the ages, of human misery, hostility, crime,
violence and war, since time began.

WC: We are about to correct that flaw in logic, and expect to
deomonstrate a sudden surge in good will and fellowship among our own
population.  We will forego that strict reliance upon Money, and instead
turn back again to the adequacy of Food as being paramount, and see that
no one has to do without adequate Food any longer.  What I propose to
you is that with your permission, we will send you any experts needed to
demonstrate exactly how and with whatever skills we may have, to emulate
our productive capabilities towards an adequate Food supply.  Until your
Food production has reached the appropriate levels sufficiently to serve
every member of your society, we will freely send to you any Food
produced to your standards, sufficient to make up any deficiencies.

WC: Further, as China is now demonstrating great prowess in producing
artifacts of GDP of superior quality than we have produced in the USA,
all we need help you with is the cooperative development of effective
organizations of production.  It is apparent that China already knows
how to produce, but the usage of what is effectively slave labor with
minimal access to the cornucopia of Food and GDP that is and can be
produced, is a trend, created by an obsolete Doctrinaire Philosophy,
that must be reversed, not only in China, but also in our own domain.
We must eliminate that obsession with Money that is deliberately and
traditionally kept in scarce supply for reasons that cease to have
validity when Food becomes abundant, and instead insist that everyone
gets his fill of whatever Food he chooses, plus whatever artifacts of
GDP available that he chooses.

WC: We will help your experts on how best to transition from the age old
environment of rampant misery to one of whatever is your design for
China for the happiest environment that can be imagined, subject to
change as we learn ever more in the process.  Kept in mind is minimal
damage to an environment that Nature has provided, with specific effort
to restore and correct any damages heretofore done in our ignorance.  We
too will learn in the process of mutual advice in ironing out any
latent, yet unknown problems that might be discovered.

WC: As we progress in this effort, the rest of the world would be
encouraged to participate, and as we learn, we can both send expert
advisors any and everywhere else on our planet to bring those peoples up
to an eventually world wide happy environment (to whatever is their
declared standard within their domain).

Hyman