Bruce K. Alexander : The Roots of Addiction in Free Market Society
"In order for "free markets" to be "free," the exchange of labour, land, currency, and consumer goods must not be encumbered by elements of psychosocial integration such as clan loyalties, village responsibilities, guild or union rights, charity, family obligations, social roles, or religious values. Cultural traditions "distort" the free play of the laws of supply and demand, and thus must be suppressed. In free market economies, for example, people are expected to move to where jobs can be found, and to adjust their work lives and cultural tastes to the demands of a global market.
People who cannot achieve psychosocial integration develop "substitute" lifestyles. Substitute lifestyles entail excessive habits including-but not restricted to-drug use, and social relationships that are not sufficiently close, stable, or culturally acceptable to afford more than minimal psychosocial integration. People who can find no better way of achieving psychosocial integration cling to their substitute lifestyles with a tenacity that is properly called addiction." see also :
The Big Mac IndexColin Muller : XML::XSLT::Wrapper.pm
"provides a wrapper for XML::LibXSLT,
XML::Sablotron (works with 0.43 - I haven't been using it recently), and XT
(as an external call to Java). It can accept a list of processors in an order
specified by the calling script, otherwise it defaults to trying libxslt,
then Sablotron, then XT, falling through from one to the next on failure. It
also tries to work out, for libxslt and sablotron, whether it's been given a
string or a filename. I intend to add filehandles to that, so one will
eventually be able to pass the XML and XSL as file, filehandle, or string
without having to tell the processor which."
Online visitation rights?
We took my friend's truck to the market yesterday.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is apotheosis
| source : web1913 |
Apotheosis \Ap`o*the"o*sis\ (?; 277), n. pl. {Apotheoses}. [L.,
fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to deify; ? from + ? to deify, ? a god.]
1. The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing
him among, ``the gods;'' deification.
2. Glorification; exaltation. ``The apotheosis of chivalry.''
--Prescott. ``The noisy apotheosis of liberty and
machinery.'' --F. Harrison.
| source : wn |
apotheosis
n 1: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no
equal [syn: {ideal}, {paragon}, {nonpareil}, {saint}, {nonesuch},
{nonsuch}]
2: the elevation of a person to the status of a god [syn: {deification},
{exaltation}]