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Little Free Press #62 - Waste Burner Plant
Little Free Press, 2714 1st Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55408 USA
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#62 "food for thought since 1969" Copying Permissible FREE
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WASTE BURNER PLANT
A Basic Government Rule . . .
"Don't get rid of the problem -- add to it!!!"
For example: Build an expensive waste burner plant,
instead of;
putting a ban on all disposable containers and
instead of;
creating an economic system that didn't require advertising.
Just think of the percentage of the contents in your garbage
can or dumpster that is just advertising. Think how thin the
newspapers and magazines would be without advertising.
Just look at the Profit the Industrialists will make when they
sell the waste burner plant to the government. Think of how much more
they make every year from its maintenance.
Profiteers Promote Waste!!!
You are just spinning your wheels trying to stop a bad situation
by working against the symptoms of the problem.
They will build that burner plant some place, no matter how much
you demonstrate against it!
So, why not use your time and energy to help set up a system in
which no one can Profit from doing bad and wasteful things to our
planet and its people???
Send for a free copy of the Little Free Press and learn what you
personally can start doing right now to help create a PROFITLESS
economic system. There will be abundance for all and where it will be
more profitable for everyone to cooperate than to compete.
Waste the Waste Burner ?
The Hennepin County Government is building a multi-million dollar
incinerator in downtown Minneapolis. This huge incinerator is the
first of its kind and never has been tested, according to the "Stop
the Incinerator Coalition." It is starting to draw many opponents.
Most people would prefer to have them pollute the air 50 miles out of
town, but not right here where we can see it coming out the stacks.
Do these people think that the air stands still out in the country?
Do they not care that it will pollute our food source area? It takes
a few more years to discover the poisons that eventually find their
way into our food.
Some opponents say we should expand our recycling plants and try
to reclaim more of the trash. Of course this is more sensible than
the burning, but it's still avoiding the basic cause of the problem.
Instead of stopping the drilling in the bottom of our boat it
merely deals with plugging up the holes in a less destructive manner.
Why do we nearly always just deal with the immediate problem?
When will we "wise up" and build a system that will not include the
"basic cause" of our problems? Let's eliminate the reason we drill
holes in the bottom of our boat! Then we won't continuously have to
plug them!!!
Strawman ?
Is this garbage incinerator just another strawman set up to burn
the awakening people's energy? When was the last strawman set up for
the Minneapolis radicals? Was it the domed stadium near our downtown?
Did people burn up lots of energy; thinking, arguing and demonstrating
against it?
This is surely a "Strawman" set-up. Any city planner could have
told them of the impossibility of the loop location from a traffic
situation alone. You know of the traffic jams we already have in the
loop. What would it be like with the hundreds of garbage trucks from
the city and county converging in the loop all day and night long
lining up to unload? This alone makes the loop placement impossible
but it is very impressive and angers more people to burn up their
energy in tearing down this elaborate strawman. In the end the Elite
probably will compromise by building four plants, one on each corner
of the county.
Would the "Elite" prefer to see the "thinking" people spend their
bio-computer time fighting another strawman, or have them use that
time to discover they are "wage slaves" and that they don't really
have to put up with this shit any more?
It seems to me, the radicals are taking the bait; hook, line and
sinker. They are throwing up another defensive action to stop the
masters from whipping us. (Undoubtedly with the aid of some highly
paid government agent provocateurs.)
Seems to me we would get more progress in the direction of our
own liberation by taking an offensive action. It is not possible to
gain ground by defensive actions. Gaining ground can only follow of-
fensive action.
Let's begin this action by pointing out the "basic cause" of the
pollution. Let's examine the rubbish cans and dumpsters and see
what's in them. Besides the disposable containers you will find
products that are made for PROFIT, i.e., not to last. Things which
are made with built-in planned deterioration and planned obsolescence.
Why are they built that way? To make more PROFIT!!! If the objects
are well designed and constructed many of them will last 100 years
instead of one or ten. We all know this! But we don't do anything
about it. We think that this creates more jobs so we are quiet.
We don't stop to study. If we were using a People oriented
system instead of the Profit oriented system we would build only
beautiful long lasting things that were easy to repair with universal
parts. People who enjoy tinkering with these things would be happy to
do the repairing. In a sane system we would not use these "things" as
status symbols. We would not think it necessary to throw away our old
and replace it with whatever is now in style.
In a priceless system, I think, we would try to eliminate jobs
and create shorter working shifts for the essential jobs. More people
would then get a chance at playing with the wonderful fun machines
that we invent for production. No one would have to work very long
hours. In our present Profit motivated system we can't have much fun
running these machines.Some slavedriver bosses constantly cause stress
as they attempt to make more Profit. Before this Incinerator Strawman
is disposed of in one way or the other, many thousands of good
intelligent people will add their energy (and money) to this drama, on
one side or the other.
If just 10% of these thinking people would put their creative
energies behind an offensive action directed at creating a Profitless
Society, they would succeed. Once we are operating a Priceless
economy there would no longer be a "reason" to do destructive things
like; polluting, waring, starving or stealing. We will eliminate most
of the world's present major problems with a priceless economic
system. So why not put some energy behind creating one?
"New Book" Almost Out
I have just finished typesetting my book "I Was Robot," and am
ready to take it to a printer. I have two printers in mind. One can
do large printing runs and the other can only do small print runs.
Now I hope to get feedback on whether anyone will want to buy my book.
The response I get from you readers will help me select which printer
to choose. It may prompt me not to publish at all if there is no
demand.
"I Was Robot" is a collection of my best Little Free Presses from
over the past 19 years of publication. I have revised and tried to
eliminate the duplications and have some chapters that have been out
of print for many years. There is some new material also.
Here is the sales pitch I plan to put on the first page:
Herein Discover
1. How and why the author retired at age 42 in 1969.
2. How to live happily on a lot less money and get more free time
and more fun from life.
3. What you can do to prevent WWIII.
4. Why these actions also will end;
a. pollution
b. starvation
c. stealing
d. taxes
e. crooked government
5. How to get more control of your life by taking back control of
your thinker.
6. Why to kick the TV habit.
Computer
Teach an old dog new tricks?
You can! I just taught this 61 year old dog to run a computer.
I had forgotten how much fun it is to learn something new. I have had
many really great highs in teaching myself to run this IBM clone that
I have. They say the Macintosh is easier to learn on but it costs
twice as much. My clone has a 640K ram and a 30 meg HD and a 5 1/4"
floppy drive. The Epson LQ850 24 pin printer is fun too. I started
with the Ability software program that just wouldn't do what I needed
so I got the Microsoft Word, Windows and Aldus Pagemaker. I don't
know which was greater, the joy or the agony in learning these
programs.
If I hadn't thought I had a great use for the computer I might
have chucked it all. As it was, the computer outfit cost about the
same as the typesetting would have for my book. Now I'll have the
computer to use for the word processing of my future writing and
this newsletter. It also feels like I am joining the great leap
forward in progress the world is now taking. I can understand and
use some of its new technology. Wow! The jump forward is far
greater than the leap from the quill to the typewriter, but I'm still
glad I learned to type back in '43.
I think we will never get senile in our old age if we keep adding
interesting new input into our minds.
3/20/88 Ernest Mann
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