I've been reading Orientalism by E. Said and while what I am about to talk about doesn't deal with that book directly I am going to recommend it to anyone who ever wants to debate the Middle East(Whatever that label actually means anyway.) I've been thinking about Capitalism(a.k.a greed.) Humans are most amusing and foolish when they express what they believe in. 'I believe in Capitalism' is the best example of that. Why would anyone want to or even be proud to believe in greed? Why would anyone stand behind and even claim a nation so proud of its greed as the US. This is not to argue that this isn't a problem anywhere else, but why defend it?
On a similar issue, is it moral to export such things as Coke and McDonalds around the world? Does anyone really need either of these two products? Take both of them away and they would be forgotten in the blink of an eye. Is it moral to ruin someone else's livelihood? I find no justification for selling meat to third world country cheaper then they can produce themselves and thereby killing the local market. I find no right to consume(this word is the equivalent of freedom in the US i.e. they can be used interchangeably) at the rate of the Western world(whatever that means.)
Thoughts?
Moments in time captured with various odd symbols referred to in the lingua franca as letters.
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Saturday, November 04, 2006
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I was actually hoping to travel out to Sweeden soon here. Unfortunatley I have tickets for my eife and I to see the taste of chaos tour on the 15th. Bummer.
a-greed. Well, from first hand experience in elementary schools, this is the focus of what society teaches children: learn a lot in school so that you can make a lot of money when you grow up, bc money makes you happy. People shouldnt stand behind it, but they do. Bc the rich (monetarily) people want others to think they are happy, and non-rich (monetarily) people think the rich are happy, so they try to get rich.
You would think that people would figure out the truth.
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