Date: 04/03/02 5.59 From: Diana Crow To: demographic-list@coombs.anu.edu.au Copy: Subject: Fwd: In order for another world to become a possibility Return-Path: Received: from smtp4.libero.it (193.70.192.54) by ims4b.libero.it (6.0.045) id 3C7D0A52000F910A for eudemonia@libero.it; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 05:59:56 +0100 Received: from mail2.dnsvr.com (216.40.250.39) by smtp4.libero.it (6.0.040) id 3C67A71F034F771F for eudemonia@libero.it; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 06:00:12 +0100 Received: from cairo.anu.edu.au (cairo.anu.edu.au [150.203.224.11]) by mail2.dnsvr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737491D4B8 for <528390@hyperlinker.com>; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 00:02:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from cairo.anu.edu.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cairo.anu.edu.au (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g244xLxg024931; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:59:21 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost (majordomo@localhost) by cairo.anu.edu.au (8.12.0/8.12.0.Beta16) with SMTP id g244xG7Q024903; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:59:16 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: cairo.anu.edu.au: majordomo owned process doing -bs Received: by cairo.anu.edu.au (bulk_mailer v1.5); Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:57:09 +1100 Received: from cairo.anu.edu.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cairo.anu.edu.au (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g244v7xg024148 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:57:08 +1100 (EST) Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cairo.anu.edu.au (8.12.0/8.12.0.Beta16) id g244v773024144 for demographic-list-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:57:07 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: cairo.anu.edu.au: majordomo set sender to owner-demographic-list@coombs.anu.edu.au using -f Received: from demog-225-179.anu.edu.au (demog-225-180.anu.edu.au [150.203.225.180]) by cairo.anu.edu.au (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g244v3xh024132 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:57:03 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020304155022.0259e190@coombs> X-Sender: diana@coombs X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 15:53:11 +1100 To: demographic-list@coombs.anu.edu.au From: Diana Crow Subject: Fwd: In order for another world to become a possibility Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-demographic-list@coombs.anu.edu.au Dear All, Forwarding on a thought provoking email. Please send any replies directly to Laboratorio Eudemonia. Thank you Diana _________________________________________________________________________________ >From: "Laboratorio Eudemonia" > >Kind Sirs of the DEMOGRAPHIC-LIST, > >I'm appreciating very much your work, and for this reason today I would >share with you this reflection: > > >In order for another world to become a possibility > >In present human societies, in which the most important, the most >strategic roles encompassing organization, administration, finance, >education, culture, information, health and public safety, are assigned >for life to certain persons, as a matter of fact the State lives well far >from the common Citizens. The State appears like an impenetrable hard >stone, at all immodifiable by those who where excluded from it. These two >entities, State and Citizens, that for social pact should coincide, should >be one only thing, as a matter of fact remain separated and often opposed. > >It is often written in the constitutions of the countries of the world >that "sovereignty belongs to the people" (meaning to all the people!), but >the reality is vastly different. Most of the countries of the world >literally belong to those persons who are assumed for life in the key >positions of the State, whether they are representatives or their >subordinates. Present nations are in the hands of a real oligarchy --of a >low level but spread everywhere-- that still lords and subject in a >subtle, sly manner the remaining part of the population. Nations are so >prevented from a natural evolution towards that the various situational >ambits indeed demand. > >If we are not in agreement with our government's policies, do not lose >other time: concentrate our energies toward removing that particular model >of social organization, which is the basis for every harmful behaviour of >the Governments, and which gives full power to multinational corporations >and economic empires. Public Employment for Life is the deep, hidden, mean >origin of the majority of the world's problems, be they in ecology, human >rights, peace or the economy, or in any other area. > >Demand, therefore, for what it is impossible to deny the absolute >legitimacy: claim for rotation of Public Employment, so that it can become >equally shared and of real common belonging. On the day in which this new >social system would come to the fore, no longer, for example, public >forces (persons that today are also them assumed for life, becoming so >faithful keepers of oligarchyc States) will rage against the >demonstrators. The seeds of a new society, without monopolization and >exclusion, based instead on equal sharing and full participation by all, >will take root. On that day even such ambitious aims as to see every >woman, every man on Earth having a work, and therefore an income, minimum >guaranted, will become much more easily attainable. > >Public Employment for Life is the weak ring of an otherwise indestructible >chain that binds a whole world and keeps it from achieving social progress >and justice. Public Employment for Life is the ring that today, in the >interest of all, we must definitively break. > >--##-- from http://ars.hyperlinker.com/ > > >Please, severely criticize these words. If the concept remains still >valid, then develop and divulge it around yourself. > >Many thanks, > >Danilo D'Antonio > >Laboratorio Eudemonia >http://eulab.hyperlinker.com