mercedo's Journal: Multinational Commodities

Recently I found many electric appliances made in Thailand, Malaysia, or China, but manufactured by Sony, Panasonic, Sanyo, Sharp, Toshiba. If you don't know these companies are Japanese origin, many people would think that these companies are based in respective countries. Global days the country of the company in commodities means nothing.

Very true

[Marxist Hacker 42]

And for isolationist activists like myself, it makes it *extremely* hard to buy any complex appliance if you want it manufactured in a certain country- even if you can find a Made in Japan or Made in the USA, that likely only means ASSEMBLED in Japan/USA- parts may have been manufactured anywhere, and you wouldn't know unless you took it apart and looked up part numbers.

The problem with this is that the world is a dangerous place today- it wouldn't take hardly anything to say, replace the oil in a run of .

Re:Very true

[mercedo]

The problem with this is that the world is a dangerous place today-

According to a pessimistic point of view, yes, but I don't believe so. Look at the sky, it is as clear as the deep green sea, we live under the same sky no matter where we live. Actually we are converging at only one integrated society.

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

Look at the sky, it is as clear as the deep green sea,

Depends where you are. In LA and Mexico city it's yellow- destroyed by the actions of man on the environment. That's the culture that they want to bring to Oregon. I want to keep it clear. And the sea off the coast of Oregon in many places is already no longer green- but rather a sickly brownish blue, all of the kelp, algae, and fish have been destroyed.

Actually we are converging at only one integrated society.

We are- and that's where the big m

Re:Very true

[mercedo]

Have you ever lived anywhere other than Oregon? I know Oregon is a very good place to live. I know you haven't. I suggest you to go on a trip somewhere other than Oregon. As if you were trapped in countryside Oregon. In other words your opinion is well applied to the place you live. Of course we want to know your opinion from your comments. But more importantly we want to know from your comments kinds of general truth that can be applied to many situationas not only in yours but in other cases too.

Re:Very true

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Have you ever lived anywhere other than Oregon? I know Oregon is a very good place to live. I know you haven't. I suggest you to go on a trip somewhere other than Oregon. As if you were trapped in countryside Oregon. In other words your opinion is well applied to the place you live. Of course we want to know your opinion from your comments. But more importantly we want to know from your comments kinds of general truth that can be applied to many situationas not only in yours but in other cases too.

I haven

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[mercedo]

You've been in Japan? I'm glad to hear that. Probably you might mention that about one year ago though. I understand you know relatively many things about Japan unlike? other Americans.

I read Genesis some year ago and I still remember the story of Cain and Abel. It was difficult to draw connections from the story as regards, though, I just understand in the Western world how Bible takes deep root on people's daily life.

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

I read Genesis some year ago and I still remember the story of Cain and Abel. It was difficult to draw connections from the story as regards, though, I just understand in the Western world how Bible takes deep root on people's daily life.

Re-read it sometime soon. Take a look at the respective jobs Cain and Abel did- and you'll quickly realize this is an anti-Western morality tale. The mark of Cain is a white face- 10,000 years ago Aryan farmers moved in to India and the Middle East, killing off the nati

Re:Very true

[mercedo]

I will write here from all my previous knowledge, namely I will write it without refering to any bibliography. A description of Cain and Abel only appears in Genesis. They were sons of Adam and Eve, Cain was elder brother and engaging in agriculture, Abel was working in herd. Cain killed Abel.

This is a relatively short description and no other descriptions are found in other part.

and you'll quickly realize this is an anti-Western morality tale.

It is very hard to draw some anti-Western morality from this

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

Cain was elder brother and engaging in agriculture, Abel was working in herd. Cain killed Abel.

Therein lies the key. Agriculture is a new paradigm- it requires LAND OWNERSHIP. Able was a nomadic herder- his way of life depended upon a lack of land ownership. You're taking the story too literally- take a step back from it. What happens when a culture that believes in Land Ownership invades a culture that doesn't? What has ALWAYS happened in this situation, every single time it occurs? The culture tha