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Re: Capitalism -- the Doctrine of Dissatisfaction

gmoore1@umbc.edu (moore geoffrey ( undc)) wrote:
 
 
>: The villagers have land, cows and bulls. They milk the cows, plow the
>: fields and transport the produce with the bulls, and they grow food grains
>: and vegetables on the land. They make simple but comfortable dwellings
>: from readily available ingredients: bamboo, mud, cow-dung, and so on.
>and disease. and a bad water supply.
 
No they have wells and rivers.. They are careful with the water.. Of course
sometimes there are problems, but not generally. Disease is there but we have
disease as well, ours is different to theirs -- that's all. They don't get AIDS,
they don't have heart attacks, they don't have stress related problems, they don't
get cancer...
 
>: Everything is clean and civilized. They are cooking very nice food with

>: the produce of the land and the milk from the cows and their lives are
>: full and happy. Although they are busy working the land, cooking,
>if you like milk and beef every day of your life.
 
They are vegetarians, so they don't eat beef. Their diet is so varied. You can
make so many things with milk products, grains, fruits and vegetables. You have no
idea. The Indian vegetarian diet is completely satisfying and healthy. I've been a
Hare Krishna for ten years now and I have always been completely satisfied by the
food. There's no comparison to the dull, unhealthy western diet...
 
>: cleaning, bring water from the well, washing cloths,  etc., still they are
>: nowhere  near as busy as we are in the Western world. They have time to
>: think and time to serve God.  When I saw this I was amazed. My Western
>Ah, yes. God. That's what this article is about.
>Isn't there also polygamy and wife-beating in this great village?
>permitted by god?
 
There are generally more women than men and in Vedic society a women is always
protected. In her youth she is protected by her father, then here husband, then
her elder sons. So in the past a man could marry more than one wife if he could
protect more than one woman. It is not allowed now.
 
Wife beating is not allowed or encouraged, "protection" is encouraged.
 
>: amenities we take for granted.  There is no running water, no hot water,
>: no electricity, hardly any furniture, no household gadgets, no carpets,
>no telephones. no fire department. and wait... plenty of drugs,
 
Mostly they don't take drugs in the villages, it's against their religion. And I
don't think not having a fire department is really a problem.
 
>and that guy with a big house on the hill. but what has he got other
>than five wives, large parties, food....
 
There is a sense of community in the villages. They do things together. They work
the land together, they cook together... It's more like a big family. There are
religious men and they are respected... And they have big parties to celebrate
Krishna's birthday and many other religious festivals... but everyone's invited!
 
>: us? The television and video are a direct line to the consumer society,
>only if you buy the TV, and watch it.
 
>: They don’t have the intelligence to become great computer programmers or
>: high-pressure executives, so there is no place for them. The motor car has
>except fast food and a slur of other opportunities that have the same
>or less amount of work associated with them than the village.
>they have schedules you can create, ect.
 
Yes... you can work behind the counter at McDonalds until you're 20 then what?
 
>: created so much pollution and has fostered a society where people now live
>: two hours drive away from their place of work. They buy and maintain an
>so buy a closer house.
 
They are already full of people and if you want one you have to come up with the
$500,000. And then you are in the city with all the smog and the noise... But we
don't want to live there.. we want a big back yard, a pool, parks and gardens...
 
>: All the products and services are supposed to make life easier or to give
>: one more pleasure. But the thing is these products and services were not
>: created to help the public... they were created to make money for
>: someone... that’s the capitalistic way of things.
>they were created to help the private.
>the village also makes it's "own" food. so that's not really an argument.
>and the people have jobs for their own income.
 
Yes, but it's much simpler. Life doesn't have to be so complicated.
 
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Thank you. Hare Krishna.
 
Thank you. Hare Krishna!
 
Madhudvisa dasa       
(madhudvisa@krishna.org)     /sudarsana
 
All glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada!
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