Dear Voxi,
Just a quick look in your scientific economical writing showed me you are able to turn dreams into reality for average people like me. Some thoughts you expressed have also occurred to me, especially after I visited an exhibition in Windhoek of "Two early maps of Africa" and "A discovery in Sweden" by Christer Blomstrand.

Did you get the chance to attend and see this exhibition? The main issue in the exhibition "who discovered Africa" has some connection to your thoughts, I guess. Your writing is very inspiring while you encourage thinking beyond the usual limits.
On the other hand, isn't it dangerous to raise doubt about the almighty power of money? Like Einstein, if you sitting on a train, you don't really feel the speed, you may walk there and back, as if the earth stood firm. But this is a misjudgement. We can't avoid the cultural clash between different, but equal realities.
Why should a NY stockbroker be more important than a Himba, Ovambo and all the others? Why should money rule the world instead of paying respect to the roles of family and tribal-societies? But it seems to me like a black hole, we have all been attracted to the colour-TV and disregard some basic rules we are depending on and should to obey. I don't like to write about interest rates and sub-prime loans. I neither like to write about a Stone Age daily struggle to survive.
Isn't there something in-between? Something like a paradise? Please let me say this, the doom of an industrial production capacity is to sell more and more, but there seems to be a tendency to destroy to sell again. Is there no balance there? Is this up and down inherent? I read in your paper "The inhibited (exhibited) spread of innovations”, but the mathematics is well beyond my level of comprehension and I am not qualified to discuss this with you. And you put some interesting remarks to be worth to have a deeper thought on those issues. Please continue your work and contribute to a brightly future!
Thank you very much.
Klaus Fischer,
Windhoek
Letter shortened, Ed