http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

... but the artwork is cool!

7/5/2010 5:22:33 PM

Marxist drivel indeed.. the dude's thesis culminated in a comparison of finance vs manufacturing. what about finance vs agriculture, or finance vs information technology, etc..

he is indeed stuck in the late 1800s/early 1900s the way la sez faire capitalists are stuck in the 1700s.


my drivel would go like this:

1. did we not learn a goddammned thing form the great depression? why in hell did we repeal Glass-Steagel, and expect different outcomes? would you throw a $50,000 crack party for a recovering addict?

2. petro-dollars. we're selling our souls to the guy underground for that black blood, and ignoring the energies from heaven. until we fix that, we continue to setup for a giant failure.

3. what Mr Miyagi said.. ultimately its about balance, which is not easy, which is not really understood by children and animals, and is the hallmark of civilisation. la sez faire capitalism is as absurd as communism -- neither are sustainable, and both demand strict adherence in the likeness of an orthodox religion.

7/5/2010 7:04:39 PM

"ignoring the energies from heaven"

its just that simple, like mana.

7/5/2010 7:43:33 PM

^remember kids, god helps those who help themselves

Quote :

"la sez faire"

laissez faire (literally the command "leave to do")

[Edited on July 5, 2010 at 8:06 PM. Reason : per se

7/5/2010 8:04:08 PM

Quote :

"la sez faire capitalism is as absurd as communism -- neither are sustainable, and both demand strict adherence in the likeness of an orthodox religion."

Fun fact of the day: communism is plenty sustainable. Both North Korea and Cuba are still communist. Any system is sustainable, including the current private profits/public losses system. Even absolute monarchy lasted for hundreds of years. Hell, even Social Security is sustainable. All it requires is dutiful maintenance (communism requires killing lots of people; the current system requires acceptance of widespread social injustice as legitimate, a libertarian system requires widespread voluntary self-sacrifice, etc).

Sure, all systems have their contradictions, libertarianism included. But human beings are very good at self delusion.

7/5/2010 11:27:33 PM

after watching that video I was wondering why David Harvey didn't break out the ultimate powerwords: "primitive accumulation"

7/5/2010 11:34:19 PM