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echo: educator
to: CHARLES BEAMS
from: MICHAEL MARTINEZ
date: 1996-08-18 21:04:00
subject: Re: Ivan Illich

 -=> Quoting Charles Beams to Michael Martinez <=-
 MM>I think so.  I see no need for fancy cars, new body oils, new improved
 MM>programming on TV, or virtually any new product.  We've already conquered
 MM>infectious diseases with very simple antibiotics.  Now it would only take
 MM>a fraction of the money we spend on cancer research to wipe out 
nfectious
 MM>disease around the world including third-world countries.  We've already
 MM>developed very useful tools that help us shape our environments -- 
pulleys,
 MM>levers, motors, etc..  There's no need to continually upgrade this stuff,
 MM>at least until we can first make it available to suit people's basic
 MM>needs in assisting their daily tasks world-wide.
 CB> And, if you are truly committed to your cause, you will give it all
 CB> up.   I'll know that you've found your nirvana when I don't see you
 CB> writing in  this echo anymore, for you will have forsaken your
 CB> computer, given away  your car, and moved into the hills in a shack
 CB> adjacent to Theodore  Koziniski(sp?).
Well, that just makes no sense whatsoever, Charles.
-michael
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