I Think We Need To

If You Look At History, There Seems To Be A Regular Pattern: The Country With The Most Powerful Military Also Happens To Be The One With The World Trade Currency. That Gives Them An Enormous Economic Advantage, Which Causes Goods To Flow Into Their Country.

Capitalism Is Like This Fractal Thing Where Anything That Contains An Element Of Capitalism Anywhere Inside It Is Just Something That Turns Into Capitalism. It Is An Incredibly Defeatist Attitude. If You Choose To Look At Reality That Way, I Suppose You Can, But You Have To Do Enormous Violence To Reality To Do So Consistently.

We Need Each Other To Do Things That We Can't Do For Ourselves. If We Are Intimately Connected With Each Other, We Just Give Things To Each Other; If We Don't Know Each Other We Find Another Way To Handle It. If You Think About It, Each According To His Or Her Abilities And Each According To His Or Her Needs Is Sort Of The Same Thing As Supply And Demand.

We Are Watching The Beginnings Of The Defiant Self-assertion Of A New Generation Of Americans, A Generation Who Are Looking Forward To Finishing Their Education With No Jobs, No Future, But Still Saddled With Enormous And Unforgivable Debt.

The Question We Should Be Asking Is Not Why People Are Sometimes Cruel, Or Even Why A Few People Are Usually Cruel (all Evidence Suggests True Sadists Are An Extremely Small Proportion Of The Population Overall), But How We Have Come To Create Institutions That Encourage Such Behavior And That Suggest Cruel People Are In Some Ways Admirable-or At Least As Deserving Of Sympathy As Those They Push Around.