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"Cutting axe-handle
Cutting an axe-handle,
The model is not far off." -THE BOOK OF POEMS

"A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men." - Tom Paine,
THE AMERICAN CRISIS

Need a dissertation on Chung Yung?

Charles (Wal*Mart shopper who loves all the bargains from China)

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>From: Peter Bi <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Pound's politics
>Date: Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 2:18 PM
>

> Confucius.
>
> And charles moyer wrote:
>> Does the right direction ever change? Now we have 3 cents between us.
>
> It is changing, and now even China  may head at a different direction. Who
> knows. But at least, the ideology worked well for a quite long time in
> ancient China.
>
> The point is that while people were testing or arguing what would be a
> better solution to the problems, Pound (might believe he) found a convinced
> solution.
>
> Note that in history, China never had the "money" problem or usury, yet the
> economics was the surprisingly strong. For Pound, Confucian ideology gets
> rid of usury at the first place.
>
> Let me know.
>
> Hongguang Bi
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Pound's politics
>
>
>> which right iz you talkin' bout?
>>
>> jb..
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> They hang the man and flog the woman
>> That steal the goose from off the common,
>> But let the greater villain loose
>> That steals the common from the goose.
>>
>> ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire --
> in
>> the
>> sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful
>> language
>> of power.  There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or
>> hypocritical,
>> whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks.  The
> dominating
>> impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a
> prescribed
>> good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is
> poured
>>
>> forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the
> slaughter
>> house.
>> One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first
>> giving
>> free reign to this hubbub of voices...."

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