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Comment on “CAPITALISM DOESN’T WORK”: Scenes from a Miniscule High School Newspaper Controversy by Micheal Conner

Micheal Conner — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:33:46 +0000

He missed the very points he pointed out. It isn’t capitalism that benefits humanity, it is liberty and respecting one another as equals. I don’t run into your house and turn off your TV because I don’t like the show. It is respect. The flaw of capitalism is it doesn’t respect liberty. I also hate the fact that capitalist dogma loves to say that it provided the rewards. No, it didn’t. The person following their own path in a free society based on egalitarian respect and brotherhood is what gave them that. They did it themselves.

Liberty rewards people. Capitalism is just an economic ideology and at this point favors the wealthy and promotes profits at the expense of people. In the long run it has the potential to move towards fascism. Why do I say fascism, I say it because of the social darwinist ideology you can see plainly in his article. The belief that some people deserve something, even if capitalism rewards those who don’t do anything actually. In fact the wealthy who do nothing are totally acceptable for survival but the poor who do nothing are purged from the system. And these people believe that is totally acceptable. It’s okay to purge a poor person but a rich person obviously earned what they have and deserve it.

Social darwinistic thinking with a belief that certain people deserve to be destroyed is a form of eugenics. Eugenics was very popular and quietly disappeared after world war II, for a very good reason. It was used by the Nazi’s, the weak of society were to be removed.

Capitalists love using this social darwinism as justification for the destruction of people’s lives. An example would be that a person that is in a wheel chair doesn’t deserve to exist and should be removed from society. That is what he is suggestion, even if he doesn’t realize it. The capitalists of course right now don’t do this directly, they do it indirectly.

The other problem is capitalism doesn’t reward based on actually value provided for society. Spending your life attempting to create a fusion process and failing all of it will go unrewarded. What if those notes somehow led to the process though down the road and we had nearly free energy? Capitalism doesn’t truly reward hard science that is based in constant failure and very unlikely to return short term gains.

Most things that we as a society need to strive for are going to be long term, maybe even multiple generational. At some point achievements may even need to be over centuries. These can’t be achieved with capitalism. Capitalism locks us into a box, it isn’t freedom.

One thing that can help us do those things though is liberty. Liberty doesn’t provide a box beyond respecting one another as equals. It’s the golden rule. Does current day capitalism respect the golden rule? If you answer that it doesn’t, then it doesn’t respect liberty either.

Comment on The Running Man (Or Woman): Ranking Barack Obama’s Vice Presidential Prospects by nj

nj — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:07:53 +0000

I dont know wtf Clark was thinking at the start of the democratic nominee fight. Why didn’t he run again!?
It should be Clark Prez, Obama, VP.

Comment on The Running Man (Or Woman): Ranking Barack Obama’s Vice Presidential Prospects by Sphynx

Sphynx — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:39:45 +0000

Governor Kathleen Sebelius is the preferred choice amongst hard-core Obama supporters.

Comment on “What if we wrap the pancake AROUND the sausage!?”: The Fine Art of Food Convergence by moonmaster

moonmaster — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:46:30 +0000

Just wait ’till you taste the new KFC Famous Goat Scalp Bowl.

Comment on “What if we wrap the pancake AROUND the sausage!?”: The Fine Art of Food Convergence by Craig

Craig — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:06:57 +0000

I’m glad we don’t have that kind of stuff here in NZ. Instead we have meat pies made out of goat scalps. Yeah. I don’t know who has it worse.

Comment on Wright Was Right. (Kind of.) by Skotti

Skotti — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:06:47 +0000

Oh…. chucking frist… Hagee needs to die. Him and McCain’s other supporter, Rev. R. Parsley.

Comment on Wright Was Right. (Kind of.) by Iceshadow or Matt

Iceshadow or Matt — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:36:15 +0000

Well said, and thanks for bringing that televangelist to my attention.

Comment on The Sad and Inevitable Death of the Album by moonmaster

moonmaster — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:35:30 +0000

Yeah, coverflow. It’s not just covers though, Radiohead produces a ton of extraneous, awesome art for their albums. Check it out:
http://home.student.uu.se/hehi1133/artwork.htm
But it’s a lot more than the art. It’s just the whole idea of an organized, thought out sequence of songs.

Comment on The Sad and Inevitable Death of the Album by Iceshadow or Matt

Iceshadow or Matt — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:16:30 +0000

Possibly, but then again my i-tunes/i-pod does show the album art with the song being played (and even has a mode where you can cruise the albums). Just sayin’.

Comment on Hillary Sparking Some Obama Drama and McCain In Shame?: Your Election News and Terrible Puns Update by TOG

TOG — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:37:25 +0000

I don’t even follow politics and this was very interesting.

You do have writing talent.