I went to a work "party" (isn't this an oxymoron?) on Friday. The "party" featured lame-ass food, work chicks dancing to "sexual healing," and my boss (with bad breath) kissing me on the cheek after drinking a pitcher of beer. All of this happened before 4PM, mind you, and I was forced to go to the "party" by another "boss." Blah, blah, blah.
On the upside, I started reading the book "Strong Democracy." I couldn't get past the preface without writing a few thoughts down:
Capitalism: we are onto something here, but only if it allows for multiplicity, if it is monitored by governmental policy, and if the voices of local communities are consistently heard. "The invisible hand" is a theory that necessitates revision, especially in the eyes of the public and what is considered the public good. "Checks and balances" is a theory that deserves more weight, but it must be guided by the topologies of local communities as well as global ones.
"If democracy is made to work politically, the American people will be positioned to choose the economy they deem compatible with their liberties and with prosperity."
On the upside, I started reading the book "Strong Democracy." I couldn't get past the preface without writing a few thoughts down:
Capitalism: we are onto something here, but only if it allows for multiplicity, if it is monitored by governmental policy, and if the voices of local communities are consistently heard. "The invisible hand" is a theory that necessitates revision, especially in the eyes of the public and what is considered the public good. "Checks and balances" is a theory that deserves more weight, but it must be guided by the topologies of local communities as well as global ones.
"If democracy is made to work politically, the American people will be positioned to choose the economy they deem compatible with their liberties and with prosperity."
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The pairing of those words in the collective conscious is atrocious and misguided, and the more I look at it lately, the pairing of Christianity and Capitalism, or idealistic extremes of the left (alturism and cheek turning) and right (civil libertarianism, free market) have lead to the modern abyss thats is American centrism, a thinking person knows, now is only the time to sit back and watch as the condratiction of the American idea swollows itself faster than uro buro.