Platt and Mary, Platt:
> Over the course of human history, profit-seeking business leaders, > > scorned as greedy capitalists, have done more to preserve human life > > and lift human beings out of poverty than all the churches, charities > > and > > government welfare programs combined. > Perhaps true, Platt. I'm willing to grant you that. But is the purpose of a pattern to keep us in that pattern, or to get us somewhere better? At this time, I don't think "what has worked in the past' is going to work in the present. Or future. The problem with conservatism is that it conserves static patterns past their usefulness. > It is economic ignorance that > > impels critics to vilify society's benefactors. These benefactors > > deserve > > our gratitude and praise for without them there would be a lot fewer > > people alive today and a lot more poverty. > > Sure, yay Ronnie Raygun. whatev's. But the question isn't how noble those in the past, the question is what's doing in the now. Dig baby? > [Mary Replies] > I am glad to see you subscribing to Social Darwinism by exhibiting such > gratitude to your benefactors. Since the Reagan administration, there has > been an accelerating pattern of deregulation allowing for the amassing of > greater and greater wealth in the hands of a few. I am glad to learn that > you have such faith in their judgment as to its use, since surely the world > would be an awful place if all that concentrated wealth were put to work > bettering the larger human condition. > Oh dear Mary, I'm afraid any irony is going to be entirely misconstrued in this case. > I have a complete set of the writings of Ayn Rand in paperback. I would be > happy to loan them to you. > yeah, that's what I'm saying. He doesn't need 'em. Got 'em memorized. If he trots em out, I've threatened to unleash the Ayn Rand vs. Dr. Laura Metaphysical Mud Wrasslin' match of the MoQ on him and Ham. Don't make me, Platt. > > This past week Frontline on PBS aired a documentary about the financial > crisis. It was a pleasure to once again watch Alan Greenspan stand before > Congress in his October 23, 2008 hearing and admit he'd been wrong. It was > a disappointment, however, to see that the "greatest financial wizard" of > the past 30 years; whose every word was clung to as received gospel, is, > now > that his tune has changed, suddenly so ignored. > > ah well, hindsight - 20/20 - all that jazz. Oops, I dropped the economy and broke it. Sorry hon. Bake another. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
