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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Be There or Be Square! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> </span></font><b><u><font size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Forbidden Fruit - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Newton</st1:City></st1:place>’s
legacy in today’s economic, ecologic and ideological crises<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Prof Conleth D Hussey<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jean Monet Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>7.30 – 9.00 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>TONIGHT
</span></font>Monday 8<sup>th</sup> Feb 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Billions of dollars have been poured into the global banking system in
a frenetic attempt at stabilization. Yet the same urgency is strangely missing
in dealing with world poverty and the ecological and environmental crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In a no-holds-barred analysis of our desperate historical situation, Prof.
Conleth D. Hussey, traces its origin to the ideology spawned by the physics of
Sir Isaac Newton which culminated in Thatcher’s spine chilling utterance
‘There is no society, only individual men and women, and families’.
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This ideology was echoed in the last decade of the 20th century by
commentators such as </span></font><span lang=EN-IE>Francis Fukuyama with his
ultimate ahistorical “end-of-history” thesis, proposing that
liberal democratic individualistic capitalism had won out and the eternal global
liberal utopian community was just around the corner. That the jaded old
Marxian class struggle between workers and capitalists could finally be taken
out of its misery and laid to rest. And more, that liberal democratic
capitalism was, indeed, natural to a greedy rapacious human nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-IE
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Vehemently defending our human nature from this
assault, Prof Hussey turns this argument on its head, that it is greedy
rapacious capitalism that is sucking away at our human essence. The economic
crisis of the past two years demonstrates that the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Fukuyama</st1:City></st1:place> model was an illusion, based on the
drive for super-profits and hyper-consumption for a few, on the unrestrained
exploitation of resources and on social and environmental irresponsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-IE
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hussey argues that the current model does not need
adjusting, it needs replacing. With a confidence in the ideological
consequences of the less individualistic and more relationship based new
physics - a physics that is more in line with the social relationship basis of
our humanity - a new economic model is proposed. A model which is unashamedly
based on the universal democratic ideals of the 200 year old revolution in - of
all places - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Haiti</st1:country-region></st1:place>!
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