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To:
politics.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk Date: Monday 8 November 04 |
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Dear Sir/Madam,
According to last Thursday's Guardian, "The EU is in danger of being relegated from the economic super-league because of its failure to match the US and Asia in growth, productivity, innovation and competitiveness, . . . " ("Europe losing growth race"), while according to today's Daily Telegraph, "There will not be any work in Britain for unskilled people . . . within one scholastic generation" ("Unskilled jobs to go in 10 years"). The first quote is from a report drawn up by a group of eminent industrialists, trade unionists and business academics, the second from the the director-general of the CBI, Digby Jones. Both are reported in connection with the annual CBI conference in Birmingham. The values and attitudes expressed in both quotes make perfectly normal economic sense and are poignant examples of the Insanities of Normality leading us towards catastrophe, as surely as the values and attitudes of Nazism did. Deeply rooted in man's "more animal than human " nature, our socio-economic order is based and dependent on them. We have to develop values and attitudes rooted in our more enlightened, human nature and base an alternative socio-economic order on them. Either that or we face extinction. |
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