We're talking about AI and you insist on launching into apologies for Uncle Scrooge. The same thing happened when we were talking about corporate financing of business expansion and growth. Suddenly you tried to turn it into a noble defense of the very nature of Free Enterfuckingprise, And no matter how much we tried to explain that Supply and Demand was indeed a valid principle, but that it was constantly being overturned and perverted by thieves and hypocrites, you insisted on turning the whole conversation into the nature of the laws of Physics--which made it all right.. This desperation to make sure every criticism about Capitalist thought and policy must be immediately challenged and put to rest--before it spreads--reveals quite a bit about some sort of crisis you're going through. Sometimes you have to maintain two contradictory ideas in your mind in order to work out a meaningful synthesis. The inability to do that is what drove TB, and what finally broke him.

If I were a psych major, I'd be tempted to think you are wracked with misgivings about some of your deepest held ideological beliefs, and you consequently feel compelled to instantly attack even the slightest criticism of them. What do they call it? A defense mechanism? Its sort of the same response displayed by a man with subconscious fears of his own lack of masculinity and heterosexuality, and who overcompensates for it by adopting a stance of uncompromising macho display and homophobic bluster.

Did it ever occur to you maybe we really don't disagree with you all that much, but that we're just baiting you into revealing some of your deepest held insecurities? Your response and behavior is consistent with that of a man who is suddenly realizing everything he has believed in,
his every deep-held conviction, may be a lie. In fact, it may not just be realizing you might be wrong, but that you have been deliberately conned into being wrong by precisely those who you admire and respect and wish to emulate. You have been cleverly manipulated into collaborating with your own oppressors. You may just be starting to realize that, no wonder you're pissed off.

I don't need to be lectured about the evils of Communism. I've seen it fail all over the planet, I've seen the damage and misery it is causing today in the few places where it does survive. And I have direct knowledge and testimony from the members of my own family who have been victimized and exiled by it. But just because you're not a Communist doesn't mean you have to be a saint. And anyone who shows any interest or sympathy with some aspect of Marxist thought isn't necessarily the Antichrist. In fact, as far as I am concerned, the evils of Capitalism really aren't all that much different, and they arise from much the same source: Some guy who thinks he's finally learned the way things work and it therefore gives him the right to steal from everybody else who's too dumb to see it.