Once again I invite you to pour a martini for yourself, get comfy, stoke (I like that word “stoke” great word) up a fire and join us for another episode of Master Piece Captain Capitalism;
How capitalism brought about it’s own demise.
Once again I invite you to pour a martini for yourself, get comfy, stoke (I like that word “stoke” great word) up a fire and join us for another episode of Master Piece Captain Capitalism;
How capitalism brought about it’s own demise.
Here’s a similar brilliant editorial about the liberal mind: http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell0900908.php3 It’s written by American, Thomas Sowell, but everything he says applies to Canada too.
Beautifully said….
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Pretty good article. If you REALLY want to know why capitalism is based on the principles of justice, you have to read Ayn Rand.
Nice one Skipper.
Rrrrrrr, Aye Aye, Captain !
“Canada, if you can’t make it here; you can’t make it anywhere.”(by me)
Capt.Capitalism articulated(nicely) what most of us already know, lets just hope PMSH and a majority government still have our interests at heart, and starts cutting.
That being said, I’m not very confident considering the Conservative flip-flop on AGW. They are gleefully participating in the “Mysteries” themselves.
Captain K is slightly behind curve here, given likely results of upcoming Cdn and US elections.
The Euphorians and the Mysterians are witnessing an end to their golden era. Don’t expect them to go quietly into the night (except retirees).
Dion’s “Tories targetting NDP proves an unholy alliance” is witness to the lazy thinking described in the article.
Good piece, Captain C. A while back Vitruvius brought to our attention an Alan Charles Kor essay, from the Objectivist Center, that shares your view:
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth–722-Can_There_Be_After_Socialism.aspx
“The cognitive behavior of Western intellectuals faced with the accomplishments of their own society, on the one hand, and with the socialist ideal and then the socialist reality, on the other, takes one’s breath away. In the midst of unparalleled social mobility in the West, they cry ‘caste.’ In a society of munificent goods and services, they cry either ‘poverty’ or ‘consumerism.’ In a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives, they cry ‘alienation.’ In a society that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians to an extent that no one could have dreamed possible just fifty years ago, they cry ‘oppression.’ In a society of boundless private charity, they cry ‘avarice.’ In a society in which hundreds of millions have been free riders upon the risk, knowledge, and capital of others, they decry the ‘exploitation’ of the free riders. In a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth, they cry ‘injustice.’ In the names of fantasy worlds and mystical perfections, they have closed themselves to the Western, liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction. Like Marx, they put words like ‘liberty’ in quotation marks when these refer to the West….”