Re: UKNM: The Big Retailers - was Toys R Us

[Steve Johnston/IMRG]

---Steve Johnston/IMRG <

steveimrg [dot] org

> wrote:

>>

>> >But you haven't addressed the issue of exclusion - and I doubt whether

>> >many on this list even consider the fate of those living on or below

>> >the poverty line. The gross distortions caused to the global economy

>> >by the activities of transnational corporations are I imagine 'dull as

>> >dishwater'.

>>

>> You are right. Sajid, because I don't know how. And whilst we can all  fret 

>> about our impotence to make a difference, we conveniently get on wth our 

>> own personal wealth creation.

>

>*YOU* are very welcome to fret about your impotence, Steve. *I* for

>one absolutely stubbornly refuse to acknowledge my inability - whether

>as an individual or within a group - to make any kind of difference.


Sajid, I am not offended by your patronising manner, but I am concerned 

that you misinterpreted me and I do not enjoy being a convenient target of 

your self-righteousness. I never said 'I don't want to', I did not 

acknowledge an 'inability' and I never intended to sound complacent. I have 

three children that I am trying to prepare for a life I cannot imagine in a 

world of diminishing certainties. I care deeply about the 'lot' of others 

and of the effect of deprivation - you do even more so when you are a 

parent. But I am without strategies or even tactics for fitting this into 

my life right know, other than by dropping pennies in the Comic Relief pot 

and buying the odd copy of The Big Issue. I am aware that this is a 

depressingly ordinary contribution, hence I *fret* about my impotence. I am 

willing but exhausted.


My comment was self-critical, as in *we* includes me. And I do not attempt 

to defend my self-interest. But complacent, no. Pitiful slaves to commerce, 

yes. Suggestions gratefully received. 


I'd be interested to learn how you are addressing online exclusion in your 

work or leisure time.


In the meantime I am going to start using smilies again.


Steve Johnston


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