[tt] [gsc] US too delusional to fix

[Mark Plus]

> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:23:37 +0100
> From: eugen at leitl.org
> To: tt at postbiota.org
> Subject: Re: [tt] [gsc] US too delusional to fix

> Nobody blames "socialism" for that but the author of the missive.
> 
> I now see that I should not have forwarded the post simply because
> people focus on the outrageous aspects, and ignore the rest.

I acknowledge "the rest," and I happen to agree that progress has broken down somehow.

I just point out that some people blame an abstraction called "socialism" for economic outcomes they don't like, even if these outcomes arose spontaneously from human action but not necessarily through human design. Scapegoating other tribes, like the forwarded post's call for a bloodbath of its author's imagined malefactors. . .

>The way to solve this problem has traditionally been for the thin veneer of civil behavior to wear off, and people go out and slaughter the scum who have been causing them grief and aggravation.  When every city has every lamp post and city building decorated with the eviscerated bodies of the filth who think they govern us without our consent, then a new culture can arise to replace the old.

. . . doesn't advance our understanding of the problem, much less its possible solutions. 

Mark Plus

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