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Excellent news. Congratulations to TV3 on a great decision; and to Media3.
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If the reactionary ol' media took a principled line with the evidence and ditched the moralistic, hysterical "all use is abuse" line we might get a more reasoned debate around recreational drug use.
But the line they take (& the scare headlines) sell more copies/page-hits/whatever and keeps the advertising revenue stream on line, so I'm not holding my breath - unless my lungs are full of something I want absorbed into my bloodstream (allegedly).
#drugusenotabuse
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JUST SAY YES!
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Speaker: The Voyage: The Engine Room…, in reply to BenWilson,
Thanks for your thoughts there, Ben.
I may have been a bit over-zealous in hoping for a 'relativity' paradigm-shift, so your Copernican analogy sounds good to me, especially as it acknowledges the vested interests vying to retain their power by retention of the existing model.I still have issues with the fixation on 'growth', given that we live on a finite planet, and I'd like to think that both monetarism and consumerism could be scaled back dramatically. (Not to say that people should have to live in deprivation, but that a level of comfort - social as well as physical - could be viably attained for all. But that would require mankind to address the population growth elephant in the room.)
For a viable long-term future of mankind we must be able to leave this planet & colonise the multiverse and I can only see our current economic models and system hindering that future.
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Speaker: The Voyage: The Engine Room…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I just feel that the 'paper shuffling' and all the smoke & mirrors around the financial instruments that led to the global financial meltdown do not adhere to the basis on which our economies were founded.
I would love to see an economic equivalent to quantum theory and relativity and the new ways of thinking that they generated. (Current economic theory = mechanical physics & current practice may be better suited to some 'relativistic' economic theory.) -
I am still concerned that we (western economies) are still working under an outdated and increasingly irrelvant system. A system that was formulated and had useful(?) application when most western countries had manufacturing and processing industries, but is not so good for modelling the 'late-stage capitalism' we currently experience where services (& especially financial services - spinning gold from straw) are the primary wealth 'generators'.
Is anyone anywhere investigating a different paradigm that might lead us out of this? The western economies seem to be trying the same old things but with no change in the success rate (approximating towards zero).
Some sort of post-capitalist system???
(I'm not an economist so I don't really know where one would start, but I can see a pressing need for it.) -
Any chance that the police will be called to face charges on their own illegal acts? They seem to be above the law...
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Is there any likelihood that the scales will fall from economists eyes and they will see the absolute folly of promoting 'economic growth' within a finite ecosphere?
Just limiting it to a more-or-less-constant level of economic activity might not be enough, but to be constantly seeking growth seems perverse and basically stupid.I long for a different economic paradigm that is not predicated on growth but on steady-state principles. At least until humankind has realised the ability to spread throughout the multiverse.
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We live on a rural property where it is inadvisable to let the dogs out unleashed, so I walk them up & down 'our' end of the road. But now they thnink they own this end of the road & take very barky umbrage at other dogs impingeing on it.
Hence the doggy-daycare which is good for socialising them but not making any inroads on the territoriality.
Haven't been burgled. -
Got to admit that your Ruby is a delightful looking dog, too. And I also love English Bull Terriers. I have a friend with a Border Terrier I fell a wee bit in love with too.
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