[sustran] WC Final Response to Alex

[Wendell Cox]

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>Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 08:35:09 -0500
>From: Alex Welte <alex at sgimess.physics.upenn.edu>
>To: Eric Bruun <ebruun at rci.rutgers.edu>
>Subject: Re: Private Monopoly and Vested Political Interests in SA v.3 
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My final response to Alex.....

My, my..  You are certainly effective in exposing nefarious underlying
motives with respect to those who disagree with you.

Like you, I have other things to do --- one of them is not using phrases
like "thinly veiled" etc, to characterized those who disagree with me. I
prefer to believe that you, like me, believe you have the best intentions,
but have simply come to a different point of view.

Best regards,
Wendell Cox


>> And now for the :"kicker" --- doubtless e-mail brimstone will rain down upon
>> me....
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>Not nearly so exciting, actually. My intention is neither to change your
>mind or rail against your views very passionately, but I think the
>situation is becoming clearer than it was. Your 'public policy vision'
>is in fact turning out to be little more than the standard so-called
>free market myopia which praises 'stability' over innovative change that
>would take into account serious efforts to adress the problem of
>selective deprivation. Claiming that skewed distributions are inherent,
>when we know that the powerful resist change, is not deep, or true. The
>problem continues to be that the phraseology is such as to 'encourage'
>hopelesness. I cannot find an explanation for this position beyond being
>deeply indoctrinated, or manipulative. If we like poverty as a means to
>sustaining our privilege - why not just say so. If we believe deprivation and
>exploitation are problems to be adressed, why phrase the statement of
>the problem as thinly veiled advice not to try to rock the boat or else.
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>Anyway - as I said - I think the remarks on the table so far speak for
>themselves, and I'm not optimistic about more progress than the little
>we've made thus far - at least not through a bunch of back and forth emails,
>but that was all I was ever up for. I happen to be from SA, and couldn't
>resist butting in when Eric sent me some stuff off the list. Maybe someone
>will tempt me back later, but I have other things to do right now
>which take precedence over email debating.
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