Instruction & illusion

...It could be entrepreneurial area of life, the state has that people sense they...

...in Canada would abandon its legally established monopoly in JORDAN BISHOP this area...

...we apply a concern about those things to thing else, which can be found in work, 23 May 1986: 295 friendship, marriage, social or moral the fascist or Communist end of the spec- South Africa's evil, or its equivocation commitment, that I can pull away from trum...

...trade is simply not subject to market pricing, U.S...

...Beer is another problem area...

...It should be noted that there is considerably ments to the effect that "everything is on the table" evoke less than "free trade" in beer within Canada itself...

...The Canadian government apparently willing to be taxed to support such things, and there had already promised action in favor of the companies, but it are constant debates over Canadian culture and the Canadian has been slowed under intense pressure from consumer identity...

...American brewers sim- may be more critical because the differences between the ply do not have access to Canadian markets, particularly in culture of English Canada and the mainstream of U.S...

...Is the worth of work or of a funny assumption on the part of capitalist capitalism, rather than that it is a glory of friendship to be found in pursuing these ideologists that capitalism somehow capitalism that it tolerates, even creates, feelings of satisfaction and obvious gives birth to freedom all by itself, as if freedom - a demonstrably false claim...

...culture Ontario where beer is sold exclusively in outlets controlled by are both subtle and in flux...

...In the end all of and boasted an exciting group of think- an alternative view, one formed over milus will have to face the death of people ers...

...We want to stay with the coercively limited, and that this is an lenged from either the left or the right in wonder and pleasure and avoid the fact improvement of a mild sort on places any serious way by the fog of our culthat these have borders beyond which i where such a right is limited, but the ture's received assumptions, which seem there is something else, and the some- notion that other freedoms automatically like reality...

...Against this background, stateCanadian brewers...

...But advertising on U.S...

...double the retail price in the United States...

...DEALING recently with some frustra- Is it in any way fulfilling...

...though they are, or that updated liturgy is The bright side of capitalism is that it boring, though it usually is, or that gimallows a measure of freedom from state micks are distracting and irritating, not to control and assumes that in at least the speak of condescending...

...and Reagan administration's caution on tempt to bring ancient traditions up to in a society with a cultural atmosphere as date...

...it was an exciting time adhere to a traditional religion is to offer through a rough passage...

...Nineteenth-century culture, rather than allowing religion to comes down to a sick preening - "see European liberalism had some assump- be in a helpful way countercultural...

...Even in Quebec, For the ruling Tory party and for many in the business where beer and wine can be sold in corner grocery stores, the community, free trade is seen as a question of survival...

...But so much of the freedom on any other denial of liberty...

...any appeal or alternative possibilities and the fact of our mortality...

...border, and millions of Canadians can watch U.S...

...how self-sacrificing I am") is part of any tions in common with present-day con- One part of the vocation of people who marriage or friendship which goes servative theory...

...Does it mean that there is an ingredeal with these things: Do I find my work meaning and satisfaction, and the ways dient which can be separated from everysatisfying...

...Satisfac- It can be said that in a libertarian society where those assumptions are not chaltion, pleasure, and happiness are limited the right to engage in forms of trade is not lenged...

...Pain and disappointment are una- lives should be the pursuit of such happivoidable, and real self-sacrifice (not the T IS easy to see where this prejudice, ness...

...Canada Cape Breton in Nova Scotia...

...I don't think I'm stretch- sion...

...Maybe Saint Basil or Saint Francis determined as ours is by commerce and can't tell my children everything they advertising, this can appear as a general need to know to live in the modern world, reality rather than a cultural condition...

...This is especially the case in English Canada, and groups...

...Whatever the case, that obviously regards many established and traditional Canafew Canadians could imagine that any provincial government dian institutions as both "unfair" and "socialistic...

...Nineteenth-century liberalism really lennia, of what it means to be human and we love, or, worse, watch them endure believed in liberty, a word heard as little what ought to matter to us...

...Canada not only has account such things as tariffs and taxes in each country...

...Most of Canada's Canada...

...But at prices appear to be set by the Quebec liquor monopoly, unless what price...

...of freer trade maintain that free trade will - in the long term - already ranks fairly high in the amount of imported television increase employment in Canada...

...The United States has 1 percent...

...Every Canadian province maintains a tight corporations...

...Already something between 60 and 70 percent of population lives within a few hundred miles of the CanadaCanadian-U.S...

...apply to someone who wants to start a tue of its being an alternative view, it has There is something in our political and communitarian and possibly left-wing at least the humbling effect of reminding economic understanding which is based grade school, and liberals fear that it us of the limitation of our own culture's on one version or another of the satisfac- might apply to someone who wants the set of assumptions, assumptions which, tion of our desires...

...The attempt to find meaning in work or personal relationships is understandable, and is certainly preferable to meanINSTRUCTION & ILLUSION inglessness...

...Are Canada's traditional in barrels cannot legally be transported across provincial and established ways of approaching these questions to be boundaries, and bottled beer is, in most provinces, a state sacrificed to the voracious appetites of American multinational monopoly...

...How a governmentally-supported radio and television network, the much of this industry would survive in a regime of free trade...

...We often assume, in pracWHAT FREEDOM TOLERATES tice, a relation between finding something full of meaning and finding it satisfying, as if the two were equivalent...

...But the questions made to so many basic human things, say about the language the culture has given us to me consider the ways we think about us...

...They are faction, as a goal, is inherently frustrat- different from the trades involved in any formed that way, right or left, without ing...

...every other aspect and say, "This is what capitalism allows is permitted for all the It should be said that the glory of a free pleases me...

...televibut to transfer pricing, that is, transnational corporations sion...

...Here, one tax-deductible expense under Canadian law, a "breach of free assumes, prices are set to maximize profits while taking into trade" that has been a sore point for years...

...this is what means the wrong reasons...

...meaning...

...Furthermore, there is a society is that it can tolerate even most...

...and in a free society will be allowed - ing things when I say that it is very dif- Perhaps that is what bothers a lot of to try to convince us that what we can be ficult to see a Lord Acton supporting the people about trendy religion, or the atpersuaded to desire, we really require...

...A but they can tell them a hell of a lot more fog made up of yearnings, generated from than John Denver...

...To be written off as "unfair competition" in a monopoly on the sale of wine and spirits, and prices are often free-trade agreement...

...are losing an imno clear rights of domination...

...It is true that a forms of suffering which we will either today - except for rhetorical reasons - view of humanity formed in the fourth accept as real and part of the world we from conservatives as from liberals, be- century is not, just by virtue of its being must inhabit, or deny in one way or cause conservatives fear that it might ancient, superior to our own...

...Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, but directly subsidizes No one really knows...

...Quebec's roots are deeper, but most Canadians, and to change Canadian legislation that had limited the period of most Canadian governments, want some kind of control over protection for drug patents, thus opening them to the generic such culturally sensitive areas as television, cinema, the perdrug market, saving millions of dollars for consumers and forming arts, book and magazine publishing...

...the right to push capital back and forth In any case, our questions are formed The point of the question is that satis- from person to person were essentially by cultural assumptions...

...We cannot help believing thing else is what our culture will avoid at follow is given the lie by the reality of life that happiness lies in the satisfaction of all costs, because of what it confronts us in Singapore or Taiwan...

...Like the United States, Canada Ontario and Quebec...

...individual desire, or that the end of our with...

...This is the dark side of right to teach grade school kids the obvi- without challenge, become the whole of capitalism: if people are to sell us what ously goofy notion that evolution is a reality for us and allow us to live in illuthey want to sell us, they will be tempted left-wing plot...

...In the mood I What does the use of the language of tions which the nature of my work was in, the answer to all of the above was meaningfulness and satisfaction, applied forced on me, I found myself using a definite "no...

...The question is particularly difficult now with a the absolute uniformity of prices be due to the fact that perfect government - and an ideology - in power in Washington competition has resulted in equilibrium...

...It is difficult to predict what programming: 34 percent...

...barriers were removed, branch plants in Canada would be Nowadays, anything to do with Canadian culture, with the moved, or that Canadian industries would move south from Canadian identity, is sensitive...

...television stations is not a buying and selling to themselves across the border...

...effect full integration into the U.S...

...does not have the kind of cultural traditions and cultural Some special problems already exist...

...American multina- identity that, for example, the nations of the Common Market tionals in the pharmaceutical industry have been pushing hard have...

...Canadians are lowering profits for the industry...

...But by viranother...

...JOHN GARVEY DAV Commonweal: 296...

...The frustration is built into our flesh other form of force, power, or influence...

...It isn't just the fact a number of places, for reasons of self- that so many new hymns are tacky, interest, stands in for reality...

...Draft beer strong and quite negative reactions...

...market would have on the USSR 18 percent...

...It is easy enough to say that if tariff the arts and artists to an extent unheard of in the United States...

...Those assumptions are not chaland wonderful...

...work, friendship, marriage, and our relaOf several minds: John Garvey tionship to God, or our lack of one...

...State con- portant part of what it means to be introl has not been one of the brightest structed, and in the process are losing a facets of the twentieth century at either VIL defense against illusion...

...Ecuador 66 percent...

...We are likely to think of our reliparody of it which is a left-handed satis- linking capitalism to the idea of free- gious lives in terms which reflect the faction, the enjoyment of a role which dom, comes from...

...Does it mean anything to me...

...Jordan Bishop is a member of the faculty of the College of Another sensitive area is that of the mass media...