Your ideas, TB, Libertarian and otherwise, are not bad for a system of small communities where there is not the banking systems, stock markets and anonymity there is now. But you are not talking about that. You are talking about systems to small to control large corporations. And it all breaks down when things get big enough to have a '29 stock market crash, a hedge fund crash such as we've seen recently, and those old saws you try to ignore because they are so devastating to your ideas, Enron and WorldCom.
In this day and age, where there is little personal responsibility and no corporate responsibility, no political responsibility, your ideas collapse, are meaningless and are like a Hollywood movie set - look and sound good and there's nothing behind them. Much like Ronald Reagan.
Your economic model, greed, is not a good one. Even Christians call it one of the seven deadly sins. How a Christian can adopt it as not only a good model but the best model seems hypocritical on the surface. Christ, after all, drove the moneychangers, the greedy, the capitalists from the temple.
And I have no doubt Christians will manage. I watch TBN, and the prosperity theologians. They sound like you - just pay enough money to the already wealthy, and be wealthy yourself.
Ya gotta love people. And from hanging around airports, I can tell you from the breast-feeding mothers, there's a sucker born every minute.
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Simplistic.
The whole thread (29 posts)
- enlightened absolutism
- Re: enlightened absolutism
- Here's the deal:
- Yes, there's the rub...
- Self-government
- It is fairly simple.
- Doesn't seem like you read Frank's post
- The fundamental principles haven't changed.
- Doesn't seem like you read Frank's post
- Yes, there's the rub...
- Great post and topic.
