In a message dated 01/24/2004 11:39:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> I would have believed that "globalization" be a fair play, if low-paid
> workers, not merely low-priced goods, could move here and there globally as
> the goods.
>

Now here's a recipe for disaster.  As Pound would have pointed out, the issue
of fair play does not rest with the workers.

joe brennan



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...."