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laodan rated 26 months ago
A totalitarian modernity Market expansion is what capital is asking for and so scientists offer their services (they are paid not and who pays them?)... It is difficult to accept but rationality is, but, the ideology of the logic of capital (this started to be imposed on capital holders since some eight centuries now in Western Europe. After six centuries of being imposed the crude lessons of capital Europe came up with rationality but the link to its origins had mysteriously been lost. Rationality had been transformed into an absolute truth through the elexsir of philosophy) The absolutism of rationality is what is totalitarianist. in NewScientist by Roxanne Khamsi """ According to some estimates, indigenous people make up about 6% of the world's population, in about 5000 separate groupings. However, studies reveal that life expectancy within these groups is considerably lower than in other populations. ... In 2000 nearly 150 heads of state signed an historic document known as the Millennium Declaration, aimed at promoting health and boosting income for the poorest people across the globe. This led to the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a series of concrete targets to reach by 2015, such as halving the number of people that live on less than $1 a day. """ URL: World's indigenous groups may risk a 'slow death'
