To: Follies who wrote (10252 ) 8/13/2008 6:15:42 AM From: LTK007 Respond to of 71454 Last post completely edited and rewritten::i will say if i agree with someone it is not uncommon it is because i am already in accord with their thinking. So if the view of Naomi Klein's irritates you, my thinking would be an irritant to you. The point is, i myself believe we practice "Disaster Capitalism", i liked Klein's article because i already shared her view. Max i also believe Chinese capitalism(cloaked in the guise of socialism) is also ultra self serving and indifferent to the populace of the countries they are doing business. Their support of Mugabe, is criminal. Their support of the Sudanese Government is criminal. There systematic exploitation of Brazil is a corrupt partnership with the corrupt greed based capitalist of Brazil and a menace to the people of Brazil.(In otherwords they are beginning to MIMIC the U.S.) IN 1991, i said we have seen the collapse of a debased and totalitarian and cruel communism, why, because it is the nature of our world that the worst infiltrate and destroy ANY economic system and in the years ahead we will see also the collapse of capitalism, and for the same reason, we have a world that allows the worst to infiltrate and destroy any economic system. Greed based, unethical capitalism, and imperialistic capitalism will bring the world down, in the end. In short, do i not only think economics is an inexact science, i think it is doomed science. We have a world geared to the strongest belong the spoils, and by that we have come to define the strongest as the most selfish, ruthless , greed based seeker of power and or wealth and this The Ayn Rand motif. Ayn Rand states she despised totalitarianism in any form, but she also believed in the free run of criminal psycopaths to exploit and get rich, thinking they weere deserving there spoils and , of course, with Ayn Rand the making for taller buildings the grandest beauty of her love affair with Industrial Man.. Ayn Rand had it seem a sexual fetish for tall buidings and sweaty high steel workers. In an interview with Studs Terkel she said with cold scorn "The poor DESERVE to be poor!" i despise that thinking, and believe only cruel minds think that way, but i also believe encouraging self reliance and poor groups learning to develop pride and power. vital. i believe the out of control welfare policy of Lyndon Johnson, debased and damaged the poor. But in sum, i have a dark view of history that i have distilled into one sentence. i quote myself. The belief that through the ages there has been a world conquest conspiracy theory gives people but an excuse for not facing the world is a sick chaos where the lust for power by divergent self-interest power groups by RANDOM collisions blend into a homogenization of evil that ends up ruling the world .Max90/GONE1001 So your trite i question as to why i believe something is in the end based on my own COMPLEX intellect---so in the end i did answer your tedious insulting question, didn't i??? i end with What good can be said about life when it is evident it only proceeds from the ancient SWAMP to the now by DEVOURING itself Max90/GONE1001