roundtable: Re: Request for Proposals for...

roundtable: Re: Request for Proposals for...

Re: Request for Proposals for...

Jeff Briggs (jbriggs@capital.edu)
Fri, 20 Jan 1995 01:07:34 +0500 

Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 01:07:34 +0500
From: jbriggs@capital.edu (Jeff Briggs)
Message-Id: <9501200607.AA01244@athena.capital.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Request for Proposals for...


     Speaking metaphorically, but not necessarally meaninglessly,
I would say Latin Americans put people above economies and markets and 
laugh at materialism, altho they suffer from every ill of capitalism
and economic and class exploitation.

     The culture is more human-centered than American culture, and 
in that sense less materialistic. In comparison to Americans most
traditional cultures value human beings much more. The Third World,
being more traditional and less within the industrial-media orbit, is
also closer to the way that people have lived throughout most of human
history. Instead of billboards, commercial TV, and Hollywood movies,
they had art, sculpture, and myth. Angkor Watt, where I was told in 
a previous post was the site of the tragic death of an American woman
who contributed to forums like this, is a perfect example that
capitalist culture (not just economy) is not the last word on
human potential.

     It is with these alternatives to our cultural blinders that
I critique.

Jeff Briggs
jbriggs@capital.edu

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