(December 26, 2011 at 6:12 pm)Mishka Wrote: What has succeeded better than Capitalism?
Regulated Capitalism and heavily regulated capitalism.
(December 26, 2011 at 6:13 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: I don't want to, but I can't stop myself.
It's just integrated into your system, the ever-consumption cycle. To keep it, you need more. I don't know but people don't seem to be ever content with their lives in the USA, and you have a holiday called "thanksgiving". When was really the last time you gave thanks for anything at all?
I'm no fan of unjust taxes, but the people in America seem to have a real antipathy for taxes, I know no one wants to give a portion of their income away..But no one ever stops and thinks, "What can I do for my country and my countrymen" but people rather stop and think, "what can I do to buy myself a wii".
Maybe I'm exaggerating, but this is the general attitude I saw in Americans throughout the course of the years(on the web though, it might not be reliable, but these are the impressions that I got).
It's a general attitude you see on television. Our economic system isn't uncommon in the current world and variations of it exists in the East as well. Most nations are bankrolling on our form of regulated capitalism, for better or worse, and it's only helping them financially.
It's the difference, for example, between China now and China when it was under Chairman Mao's control. The difference is capitalism and that difference is skyrocketing them into a world power.
The reason things in America have beome so broken lately is because the Capitalists corrupted the government that's supposed to be regulating them.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
