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- From: jym@anableps.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Maoist View of Earth First!
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 06:08:39 GMT
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- =-= I've had several people inform me that my list of Top Ten
- Answers cheated, by repeating the exhortation that Professor
- McCarthy "get a life." Fair enough. Here's a replacement
- for Answer #5:
-
- 5 Please explain how a movement for social change can hide
- those changes from the society it would change?
-
- =-= I've had the predictable responses, including one from the
- Prof. himself, suggesting the ever-present "hidden agenda." For
- the humorless, the clueless, and for the record, Answer #1 was
- the serious one:
-
- > 1 It [movements for social change] was a generic term,
- > nothing more, nothing less.
-
- =-= One amusing consequence of this thread is that one partic-
- ularly boneheaded individual saw me making fun of the Maoists
- for not knowing how to write their own jargon, and decided that
- this constituted evidence that environmentalists (i.e., me),
- were a bunch of communists and socialists.
-
- =-= I'm beginning to understand why some people act as if
- natural resources are limitless: they have unlimited access
- to a resource within themselves. Too bad that resource is
- stupidity . . .
- <_Jym_>
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