Definition: Capitalism.

Post #45,622 by mmoffitt 7/15/02 10:05:43 AM Reply	Definition: Capitalism. "A socio-economic system in the last stages of decay." The 21st century will vindicate Marx. No changes are possible until then. Murican capitalism is incapable and unworthy of saving.
Post #45,712 by Ashton 7/15/02 8:25:21 PM Reply	No problemo but.. Must we take the entire planet with us.. sour nuclear grapes and all? (I think: We Must, such as we Are.)
Post #45,790 by mmoffitt 7/16/02 2:00:53 PM Reply	Hmmm... Suppose the other non-US nuclear nations got together and decided they had enough? That'd be a good (non-?)fiction now wouldn't it?
Post #45,791 by boxley 7/16/02 2:14:06 PM Reply	Communism All yer stuff are belong to me thanx, bill So when do I get to ride in my plane comrade :) ."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
Post #45,917 by Ashton 7/17/02 5:45:55 PM Reply	Ox - ya gotta kick that either/or digital stuff ;-)
Post #45,921 by mmoffitt 7/17/02 7:38:20 PM Reply	OUR (as in The People's) plane you mean ;-)
Post #45,972 by boxley 7/18/02 10:13:47 AM Reply	OT how to get a private pilot to come after you with a 2x4 hey! why donja fly me to BlaBlaBla, Ill pay for the gas :) thanx, bill ."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
Post #46,084 by mmoffitt 7/19/02 12:42:19 PM Reply	Good one ;-) But you know, unless you've got your commercial ticket, you can't let your passengers "pay for the gas", a Private Pilot has to "pay not less than a pro rata share" of the expenses for the flight ;-)
Post #46,131 by boxley 7/19/02 6:33:42 PM Reply	after gas that is about 80% insurance required faa certified maintenance landing fees and parking. thanx, bill ."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
Post #46,441 by mmoffitt 7/22/02 8:28:07 PM Reply	I don't go there. Landing fees suck. My CFI was on final one time to the airstrip they used to have at one of the Playboy clubs. Somebody on UNICOM came on when he was about 10 feet of the deck and said, "You know there's a $20.00 landing fee here." My CFI firewalled the throttle and landed at a nearby non-fee airstrip, then got a free ride in a courtesy car to the club. A man after my own heart ;-)
Post #46,048 by mhuber 7/19/02 1:21:47 AM Reply	Well, I wouldn't say "vindicate Marx", but I won't be surprised if events over the course of the decade wipe out our smugness about the collapse of the Soviet Union. The mythology is breaking down. The current scandals of corporate fraud threaten the very roots of our culture. I pointed out several years ago that since you can no longer count on a quick, cheap burger served by a smiling McDonalds associate, our culture is dead and is simply taking a long time to fall down. If the crisis of faith isn't handled with exquisite finesse, we are going to find out just how much foundation there is under the house of cards. ---- United we stand Divided we dominate the planet without really trying
Post #46,063 by boxley 7/19/02 9:22:36 AM Reply	goto North Carolina OK so quick isnt part of the culture but in most cases a Mickey D hamburger looks as good as the picture. Unlike the cold fast hockey pucks served in the Yankee Mcdonalds. thanx, bill ."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
Post #46,085 by mmoffitt 7/19/02 12:43:40 PM Reply	Who eats McDonald's in North Carolina? With all that good barbecue down there you've gotta be outta yer mind to eat a grease-burger from Ronald's house.
Post #46,132 by boxley 7/19/02 6:35:06 PM Reply	tell that to the munchkins When mickey's starts serving turnip greens and boiled cabbage with ham I will eat there a lot more. thanx, bill ."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
Post #46,117 by Ashton 7/19/02 4:36:36 PM Reply	As Joseph Campbell mentioned about a thousand times.. When a society has left.. no viable mythos for the times in which one lives - it dies. Our myths are either antediluvian from the Brute Ages or they are Financial-oriented recipes for getting More than Your 'share' via taking from others [in Our case: from the entire planet] - as much as you can get away with, short of actual incarceration. So when we become Brutes to match our antiquated Puritan roots [??] I tend to think of 1968 as a K-watershed - the third of the assassinations in sequence; JFK, MLK, RFK (while the KKK mindset remained suffused in the retarded brainpans of multitudes). It's still around, too. As Bill the Cat wisely observes.. AcckkKKK - phfffft! Methinks that nothing short of an Epiphany can resurrect any semblance of Honorable Life\ufffd in these parts (that personal meaning... in millions of different heads - not some cockamamie 'Absolute Honor' concept, of course). Ashton

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