Comments on: The bend of history http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/09/17/the-bend-of-history/ A graduate student in mathematics and a modern languages major take on politics and culture with the following aspirational motto: ‘Deregulate your mind.’ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:42:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Dave http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/09/17/the-bend-of-history/#comment-25648 Dave Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:02:41 +0000 http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/09/17/the-bend-of-history/#comment-25648 <p>I read the article. The thesis that liberal/capitalistic ways of doing things has no competitor appears to be true. In the absence of alternatives, opponents turn to unalloyed negativity and violence. At least Lenin lied and promised the workers a better way of life, not just homicide and/or suicide and deferred rewards from Allah. True capitalism, as opposed to crony capitalism has power divided and invested in non-government groups which are free to create products and there is the free but peaceful exchange of ideas, capital, power, material resources. If a company fouls up, it disappears. Things work Darwinisticaly. Government agencies seem immortal, because they build their own political constituencies.</p> <p>A problem occurs when people find that stealing, cheating, lying, or wielding government influence, beats free voluntary exchange as a means of company survival and enrichment. You also need an overseeing government that is honest and ideologically committed to the private system, contrary to anarco- capitalist fantasy. There is also the problem that the private system does not answer the needs of those who can’t compete. So you need government in this area as well a culture of charity in the private sector. This involves a mixed economy and society in which simplistic college dormitory ideology or systems dreamed of by philosophers, or clerics simply fail. This is because the solutions they prescribe are too top down and ignorant of the real world. The governments of even perpetually poor countries spawn huge bureaucracies run by politicians, guaranteeing poverty. </p> <p>The mixed capitalistic system creates the wealth and is milked but somewhat weakened by the public sector. Both systems serve human needs in different ways. Of course there are all sorts of opportunities for rats, and other parasites and no philosopher could love it, but it is the best economy humans have been able to come up with.</p> <p>There are so many things wrong with this system that everyone can find fault as they feed off of it. Intellectuals, professors, clerics and politicians sustained themselves as parasites on the system, producing nothing but living affluently as critics, while pretending to be morally superior. Fortunately their advice is usually ignored.</p> <p>Now that state socialism has been shown to be a complete failure, you would think that all people would now embrace the capitalism, but that would mean giving up participation in fanatical hate groups, going to work and actually producing things people want. It is more exciting, profitable and fun to support gangsters or better yet be one. You also get more respect than a shop keeper.</p> I read the article. The thesis that liberal/capitalistic ways of doing things has no competitor appears to be true. In the absence of alternatives, opponents turn to unalloyed negativity and violence. At least Lenin lied and promised the workers a better way of life, not just homicide and/or suicide and deferred rewards from Allah. True capitalism, as opposed to crony capitalism has power divided and invested in non-government groups which are free to create products and there is the free but peaceful exchange of ideas, capital, power, material resources. If a company fouls up, it disappears. Things work Darwinisticaly. Government agencies seem immortal, because they build their own political constituencies.

A problem occurs when people find that stealing, cheating, lying, or wielding government influence, beats free voluntary exchange as a means of company survival and enrichment. You also need an overseeing government that is honest and ideologically committed to the private system, contrary to anarco- capitalist fantasy. There is also the problem that the private system does not answer the needs of those who can’t compete. So you need government in this area as well a culture of charity in the private sector. This involves a mixed economy and society in which simplistic college dormitory ideology or systems dreamed of by philosophers, or clerics simply fail. This is because the solutions they prescribe are too top down and ignorant of the real world. The governments of even perpetually poor countries spawn huge bureaucracies run by politicians, guaranteeing poverty.

The mixed capitalistic system creates the wealth and is milked but somewhat weakened by the public sector. Both systems serve human needs in different ways. Of course there are all sorts of opportunities for rats, and other parasites and no philosopher could love it, but it is the best economy humans have been able to come up with.

There are so many things wrong with this system that everyone can find fault as they feed off of it. Intellectuals, professors, clerics and politicians sustained themselves as parasites on the system, producing nothing but living affluently as critics, while pretending to be morally superior. Fortunately their advice is usually ignored.

Now that state socialism has been shown to be a complete failure, you would think that all people would now embrace the capitalism, but that would mean giving up participation in fanatical hate groups, going to work and actually producing things people want. It is more exciting, profitable and fun to support gangsters or better yet be one. You also get more respect than a shop keeper.

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