Comments on: Money and Power, Continued

By: Seerov

Seerov — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:00:41 +0000

“Uniting avarice and ambition is also the road to serfdom. Just a thought.” (Sgt dad)

Where? How come? Explain this?

By: SgtDad

SgtDad — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:36:06 +0000

Uniting avarice and ambition is also the road to serfdom. Just a thought.

By: Seerov

Seerov — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:56:11 +0000

Here’s the resource allocation competition continuum:

Economics —-> Politics —-> War

Allowing people to compete for resources via economic activity is the safest and most efficient way to allocate resources. War is the least safe and least efficient way to allocate resources.

Whoa to the politician(s) who pushes up barriers to capitalism. For thou pushes us closer to war.

Capitalism is humanity’s only hope for peace on earth.

By: david foster

david foster — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:02:23 +0000

Also (via an article on Kristol by Mona Charen) the following, written by Kristol in 1972:
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‘All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling,’ wrote Oscar Wilde, and I would like to suggest that the same can be said for bad politics. . . . It seems to me that the politics of liberal reform, in recent years, shows many of the same characteristics as amateur poetry. It has been more concerned with the kind of symbolic action that gratifies the passions of the reformer rather than with the efficacy of the reforms themselves. Indeed, the outstanding characteristic of what we call ‘the New Politics’ is precisely its insistence on the overwhelming importance of revealing, in the public realm, one’s intense feelings — we must ‘care,’ we must ‘be concerned,’ we must be ‘committed.’ Unsurprisingly, this goes along with an immense indifference to consequences, to positive results or the lack thereof.
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Charen’s whole article is worthwhile reading.