8/15/00
I love these guys. They keep me in stitches. It seems that the thing they
fear most is that something from which profit can be made will be given
away FOR FREE!
THIS society produced people like this. They are seriously DEFECTIVE.
Greed has warped their natural and utterly necessary development to identify
with the well being of 'the group'.
This goes against human evolutionary development which has made ' the group '
the unit of human survival. Not the individual.
Excessive individualism is a sick manifestation of Capitalism. The victim
invents theories and reasons for valuing vague concepts of ' freedom ' and
' property ' over actual human life and survival. This is why the mass
murderers in the handgun and tobacco industries are permitted to continue
killing millions upon millions of their fellow citizens. The tobacco industry
alone has killed more people in the last century than all the wars and
dictators combined. Yet Hitler and Stalin are bad guys, while tobacco CEO's
are highly paid and continue to get away with mass murder. They couch their
death business in terms of personal rights, and freedom to get addicted to
the products which will kill their buyers.
The simple fact that businesses like these are permitted to legally exist
in a supposedly civilized and caring society of religious and spiritual folks,
attests to the immensely corrosive power of glorifying greed. And of course
hypocrisy.
Capitalism causes insanity. There is no doubt about it. The greed element in
capitalism gets rewarded over and over until there is no sane judgment left.
It is like a severe addiction. But if the rest of the society accepts this
behavior as ok, or worse, holds it up as an ideal, then you wind up with an
insanely destructive society. Like this one. One which can't stop itself
from destroying its own natural resources upon which it survives.
If capitalism continues much longer, we will become the first species to
become extinct due to insanity.
Joshua2
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An American Dictatorship: Ralph Nader's Vision for America
By David Parker
Green Party presidential candidate and "consumer advocate" Ralph Nader
wants to "reform" America.
In the past Nader has called for "free" education, advocated "free", and
"universal" healthcare, and attacked corporations. Evaluating Nader's
proposed "reform" of America requires a understanding the moral
implications of his candidacy. Indeed, the technical details are unimportant
in light of Nader's moral stance.
Ralph Nader believes that everyone is entitled to free healthcare and free
education. At a glance, many people think those would be great things
too. "Free" healthcare and education is a sham, however, because they
aren't "free" at all � someone has to foot the bill. Nader would pay for
these programs by imposing higher taxes on the productive members of
society. According to his understanding, the wealth of upper- and
middle-class families is not rightfully their own.
Thus, according to Nader's ideology, those who work the hardest should be
taxed � and therefore punished � the most, while those who do the least
receive the biggest handouts. This collectivist philosophy that subordinates
the individual to the "commonwealth" is morally the same one that built and
destroyed the Soviet Union.
Nader's promotes his ideas as "noble" and "humanitarian". When they
are
broken down to essentials, they amount to an annihilation of personal
freedom and individual responsibility, replacing them with "social duties" and
"social responsibility."
Nader is most famous for his attacks on corporations and capitalism.
Because of his collectivist ideas, Nader believes that the American people
are just a mass of automatons being "exploited" and "manipulated" by
companies such as McDonalds, Wal-Mart, Disney, and Microsoft. He does
not believe that individuals choose their economic relationships with these
companies. Instead, he argues that they involve some type of force or
compulsion. In short, he equates the coercive power of government with
the economic power of the private sector.
If you think he's right, try two things. For a whole year, don't send your
money to the IRS, and don't send your money to McDonald's. Don't pay
your taxes and don't buy a Big Mac. See which organization � the
government or McDonald's � comes after you with guns, threatening to
put you in jail, seize your property, or even take your life, if you
don't give
them your money.
Ralph Nader wants more government intervention in the economy and our
daily lives. His vehement anti-capitalism and contempt for free-markets,
grows out of his disdain for free minds. The free-market and the free-mind
are corollaries, they cannot exist without each other. If Nader destroys the
free-market, he destroys the creative spirit, mind, and soul of everyone.
The freedom to create values, to have consumer choice, and to have a
private sector would all be controlled and regulated by the government
under Nader's vision. Ralph Nader and the Green Party promise reform, but
a reform to what? Authoritarianism. The color of dictatorship and
collectivism is no longer Red under the Bolsheviks, it is Green under Nader.
David Parker is a student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. This
article was made available through Ayn Rand's Reason on Campus
program.
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