peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley) (09/02/84)
This net's obsession with technology as a means of solving society's
problems is rather depressing. Even when technical argument after technical
argument is piled against the Ballistic Missile Defense ("Star Wars") systems,
people still go out looking for more technical solutions.
One thing we might consider is a *real* two-track policy. "Two track" is
the name given to NATO's policy of both negotiating arms control with the
Warsaw Pact AND deploying cruise missiles and Pershing II's in Europe.
However, the amount of money that goes into developing the latter track so
overwhelms the money allocated to finding peaceful solutions that it makes
one wonder if NATO prefers the latter track (when its populations clearly
prefer the former).
Peace, and arms control negotiations, do not fall from the sky. They take
long, hard, work and creative thinking. Let's give some money to the
"other folks"; the economists, political scientists, writers, singers,
educators, poets, and so on who could take a stab at resolving our differences
by changing attitudes. Then we could argue about how to solve the obscene
poverty problems instead of who has more megatons.
peter rowley, Univ. Toronto (utcsrgv!peterr)