Lander said...
quoted 5 lines I think we agree in spirit but I'm sure you missed my point. Cars and> I think we agree in spirit but I'm sure you missed my point. Cars and
> shoes are not necessarily ideas or forces of politics, and it can safely
> be said, I think, that one does not agree or disagree with shoes on a
> fundamentally philosophical level if one has already chosen to be a
> popular mainstream musician.
The problem with Nike isn't the shoes, it's how they are produced and the
conditions of employment/wages of the worker's.
quoted 7 lines The WoD is a different matter. It is ALL about ideas, Theirs vs. Mine.> The WoD is a different matter. It is ALL about ideas, Theirs vs. Mine.
> *My idea is that it is a case of the medicine being worse than the
> disease: drug addiction can often be cured and bodies can usually heal,
> but there is no known remedy for decades in prison without parole.
> *Their idea is that druggies should go to jail and rot for their sins.
> Give me crack over the misguided vengeance of the US government any day--
> it's more hopeful. Clear philosophical differences here!
Actually, the most important factors in the WoD in the US are political and
ecconomic, not the benefits/problems with the drugs themselves or how one
should deal with an addict. If it actually was about the drugs then no
inteligent
person would want to criminalise drug use.
All the evidence suggests that the problems caused by drug use stem from
the fact that they are illegal (I dont have any figures to hand, but i'm
mainly talking
about studies on heroin use in the Netherlands) and also due to the fact
that
goverments cant run countries properly (class inequality/shit education
etc..).
The reason most drugs were criminalised in the first place is
ecconomic/political.
Cannabis was criminalsized in the US mainly because of the power of US paper
and logging companies & the main reason for the US aid to Columbia is to
fight
the Columbian revolutionaries whose main source of income comes from drug
traffiking.
You're right to say that prison sentences would be much worse than any
medical cures or rehab clinics or whatever.
btw i seriously doubt that AFX had any idea about the ad, and i wouldn't
care if
he did. even if he was a sellout (and i don't think his support for the ad
would make
him one, even if he does use or approve of drug use) i'd still buy his
records coz they
sound nice....
btw2 i doubt warp would have given the go ahead for the ad seeing as the
RDJ Album wasn't released by warp in the US. I think it was Elektra or
Sire??
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