amfortas
All these protests in various cities and not a carrier pidgeon or a chap with a cleft stick in sight. Instead its texting and emailing, videoing and the ubiquitous rock music, all produced by 'Corporates', and shown on You Tube and TV. HYPOCRICY writ large.
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ed shank
Mr.Den
bigben
Its irrelavent. When people protest they use the tools available and capitalist are not the sole innovators of technology. Look at the countries that don't follow a capitalist system and still have an advanced technology. And if you check in our country you will see that the biggest technolgical advancements in our society were started as developements of the military industrial complex. While they may use a great number of contractors now, this wasn't the case in the past. Also, the statement that they are using things that are the result of capitalism is a specious argument because that fact doesn't have any thing to do with whether the capitalist system in our country has become distorted or not or do you suppose that capitalism is somehow pure. While I think that capitalism is the best economic system I also know that any system is subject to abuse; thats why laissez-faire capitalism doesn't really work, simply because greed is a negative charateristic and usually leads to some sort of manipulation which then requires reasonable regulation.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
I was not being sarcastic either. I was just giving you an opportunity to expand on your views. So there is no need to insult me. Why do that?
"Thanks I will Er.... which ones are they?" And you aren't being sarcastic? Right. Furthermore, I didn't put any words in you mouth; I was making my own point, thank you vey much, and you were the one that suggested that by using technology the protesters were somehow hypocrites. Also, just because a corp. makes something doesn't mean that they don't abuse the system. People use whats available to them. What do you think they should do, send up smoke signals? Now, I'm not trying to insult you, but to emphasize a point. If you saw it that way, then I apologize.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 0 | |
Thanks I will. Er.... which ones are they?