Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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We are left alone, by ourselves, in waging our peace efforts against the belligerent corporate colonization of our society. And it was just few days ago that we mentioned the colonial move by the University of Toronto to increase their fees to $25,000 per year per law student in order to achieve international excellence for their faculty of law.
Besides Ronald Daniels, the corporate colonization movement of
our society has adamant supporters in neoclassical economists James
B. Davies and Ken Boessenkool.
The corporate colonization of our society must stop and we will continue to support initiatives where social values are more important than money, game theory and unilateral wars. References The Council of Canadians: Working Against the Free Market and the Colonization of Education, by Mario deSantis, December 17, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_500/desantis515/councilofCanadians.html Canada's law schools: High tuition v. academic excellence, by Bruce Feldthusen and Michael Geist, December 20, 2001 The Globe and Mail Game theory and military preparedness, James B. Davies and Ken Boessenkool, December 19, 2001, National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20011219/910087.html Interview with Phil Wolfe http://www.e-optimization.com/directory/trailblazers/wolfe/
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Ronald
Daniels, dean of the faculty of law at the University of Toronto,
wants his school to be number one in the yearly ranking performed by
the Canadian magazine Macleans as if we find in the ranking the
social value of our educational institutions.
Luckily
enough we have professors Bruce Feldthusen and Michael Geist of the
University of Ottawa who have had the intelligent common sense to
tell dean Ronald Daniels that "the Canadian public should not
for a moment think that price determines excellence. Other Canadian
law schools have concluded that they can also achieve international
excellence, but do so in a manner that reflects the very best of
Canadian sensibilities of both greatness and affordability."
These
two economists have used the highly sophisticated mathematical tool
of game theory to show the shortcomings of our federal government in
assisting the United States in the war against terrorism in
Afghanistan. While we agree that our government has not well
equipped our armed forces, we don't agree with these economists'
assertion that we can't provide help for Uncle Sam as the Bush
administration is only interested on the unilateral waging of wars
against terrorism. Further, we remind Davies and Boessenkool that
the highly sophisticated mathematical tool of game theory is not a
proper social economic tool.
In
particular, game theorist and mathematician Phil Wolfe has
confirmed, from a mathematical perspective which is socially
inadequate per se, that with game theory "you do a great job
on... two-person game. But that's not what life really is. Life is a
very large number of persons..."