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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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  • Chinas lessons for the World Bank | Comment is free...

    Rated May 24 2007 • 3 reviews • economics, china, globalization • guardian.co.uk

    China's lessons for the World Bank
    in the Guardian and the Economist's View by Jeffrey Sachs

    As the World Bank clings to its free-market ideology, China is providing more practical help for developing countries.

    ... In a hungry and poor rural economy, as China was in the 1970s and as most of Africa is today, a key starting point is to raise farm productivity. Peasant farmers need the benefits of fertiliser, irrigation, and high-yield seeds, all of which were a core part of China's economic takeoff.

    China's lessons for the World Bank


    Sachs observes from the point of view of the "developmentalist" and what he sees is Chinese pragmatism that he contrasts with the ideological approach of the world bank and much of Western views on economic development.

    What strikes me is not the content of Sachs argument, that I find right on the mark, but the comments that follow his article. Those comments are filled with rage at Sachs finding something positive to say about China and with formalist arguments about democracy. Another striking observation is that those comments all originate from Anglo-Saxon lands.

    Time has come for some comments by people representing 85% of the world population stuck in the non-industrialized lands of the South...