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5月10日 Corporatism I forgot to mention a few other pejoratives: how about plutocracy or congressional-industrial complex? How about government of by and for crooked corporate managers? I was thinking a counterfactual thought; suppose the Fortune 500 managers were all jailed and water-boarded. Picture that in your mind's eye. What would happen to Western civilization, I wonder. I suppose we would all die of famine and pestilence. It is entirely possible that the planetary overpopulation of 6.5 billion is corporate-dependent. It's as if there is a secret written corporate mission statement somewhere that for the sake of profit the planet must have ever-increasing population growth. For example, where would the Mafia be without victims? They would be destitute. Likewise, corporations need more and more business. I wonder if they have corporate-free countries anywhere. Cuba? Antarctica? Just musing ------ 5月8日 A Pearl of WisdomThe Hamas
'Peace' Gambit
By
Charles Krauthammer
Friday, May 8, 2009 "Apart from the time restriction (a
truce that lapses after 10 years)
and the refusal to accept Israel's existence, Mr. Meshal's terms approximate the Arab League peace plan . . ." -- Hamas
peace plan, as explained by the New York Times
"Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how
did you enjoy the play?"
--
Tom Lehrer, satirist
5月6日 Nations and CollectivismYou rail against collectivism and statism as if nations by nature could
ever be free of collective action. Nationhood and statism are tautologies. They
are one and the same. Some nations are more collectivist than others, but the
difference between a strike by assembled textile workers against their employers
is of no essential difference than a war against an enemy by a larger collective
of people, better organized as a nation.
The better question is to inquire as to the etiology of nationhood. The
cause of nations is Darwinian. He who gathers the most power survives. It is a
law of population growth and in particular, industrialization. Collective action
is like oxygen to fire. You cannot extinguish fire by eliminating oxygen without
eliminating life. The Edomites and Moabites and Hittites are not with us due to
evolution. And the Jews might be next, along with the Babylonians.
The Declaration says it well: " That to secure these rights, Governments
are instituted among Men." We have rights all right, but it takes collectivism
to secure them. I saw a nice young fellow interviewed on TV the other night.
Turns out he was a convicted serial killer who was obsessed with eating his
victims' hearts raw. He had no idea what caused his strange compulsion. My
point is, sometimes we need to join together to secure our rights against the
Devil incarnate himself. If men were angels, we would need no laws and no
nations. Amen. |
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