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Originally Posted by ni'k
We certainly can't continue to function the way we are going -
1. the earth is already overpopulated, and thanks to the christian/reckless hedonist consumerist ideologies we continue to have so many kids (instead of looking after the ones that are already here). This will only end up in mass death/war over resources.
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Just a note - I think that this is a dangerous argument to try to follow through on. When you talk about who should and shouldn't be having kids, you are participating in a very moralistic and oppressive mode of thought.
But I do agree that America needs to start valuing other opinions such as adoption and foster care. There is little to no money, especially in the later.
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Originally Posted by ni'k
2. the enviroment. remember back when anyone who talked about it was just a hippie? the way we live is unhealthy for both the world and us. We build things that are designed not to last and thus to be replaced, made only for profit and are out of sync with nature. It's both inefficient and dangerous.
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Once again, global capitalism seriously needs to re-examine it's focus and put other things before profit...you know, like the environment and basic humanitarianism
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Originally Posted by ni'k
3. the war machine shows no signs of stopping. we are in a fucked up position were we help fund and propagate it by our very participation in much of society.
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It's a lot more than just "the war machine"...that's a pretty vague term. We perpetuate oppressive systems by our basic participation in a multitude of systems and discourse...also, most of us think of what is as being stoic, we forget that many of systems around us have been very different before, that we didn't always have prisons and mental institutions the same laws of sanity and sancity, and can continue to transformed the world for the future.
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4. crucial to all this is the view of the body as a commodity which is encouraged under capitalism.
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body politics man.
homosexuality is also a relatively new system, an idea that didn't really exist 150 years ago, one that denotes a new class and type of person.
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5. saying JUST GET A JOB doesn't work - capitalism depends on a reserve army of the unemployed in order to function. it also means that third world people can't get any work because their countries are being raped/destroyed by capitalism. also capitalism destroys people both pyschologically and physically. the rest are at best addicts with a borderline pyschosis/depression.
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I'm not sure if I would say that capitalism relies on the UNEMPLOYED, but certainly on the exploited.