From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue 10 Dec 2002 - 20:03:17 GMT
>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:14:11 -0600
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
> > > > When you say it "works" or "doesn't work" what do you mean? What
> > > > does it do or doesn't do that you think it must do?
> > > >
> > > It provides those who adopt it with a higher average standard of
> > > living than other models, just as democracy provides citizens with a
> > > greater voice and more personal freedom than other models (at least
> > > than any alternatives that have been tried).
> >
> > i think that above and beyond all that (which is somewhat subjective,
> > wouldn't ya say?), capitalism and "democracy" (yet to be actually
> > implemented, wouldn't ya say?) "work" because they have the dynamic
> > capacity to adopt strategies "on the fly" to prevent other ideas from
> > gaining enough footing to replace them. the reason americans are
> > conned into making a duality (communist or capitalist, dictatorship or
> > democracy) is because it keeps out other ideas and prevents the
> > CREATION of new ones. it discourages, dissuades and otherwise destroys
> > competition. the only reason these two ideas stand at the forefront is
> > because they can infect more people, not because there is some
> > qualitative superiority inherent in them.
> >
>I would phrase it another way; these systems are perpetually
>evolutionary, and can change, in response to voter desires, to take
>advantage of the novel ideas and opportunities that the voters wish to
>implement. They are dynamic and evolutionary, rather than static and
>fixed, and engage in continuous elaboration and experimentation.
>Their futures are not dogmatically predetermined, so they can
>effectively respond to the unexpected exigencies of an unfolding
>history. And this is a GOOD thing.
> >
> > alfred
> >
What you call a thing doesn't always describe what it really is. The
Chinese now call their system communism with Chinese (meaning capitalist)
characteristics. But it has defenitely made a new country out of China over
the past 20 years.
Grant
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