Thanks William for your response. I totally agree. Having been “educated” by the far Left, I too see these entrenched “camps” as irrelevant, and self-defeating. I have no time for the “overthrow capitalism” crowd. Capitalism is the union of free enterprise and industrialization. Do we really want to eliminate those? No, capitalism can b…
Thanks William for your response. I totally agree. Having been “educated” by the far Left, I too see these entrenched “camps” as irrelevant, and self-defeating. I have no time for the “overthrow capitalism” crowd. Capitalism is the union of free enterprise and industrialization. Do we really want to eliminate those? No, capitalism can be bridled so that its natural tendency to funnel wealth towards the top is countered and wealth circulates for the benefit of all. I am in the process (as soon as I can master Substack’s system) of posting to Substack a fairly long piece containing memories and conclusions regarding the US Communist Party which you might find interesting. At least I’d be interested in your response.
Yes interested, you can contact me by clicking on my name and choosing Message.
In the meantime I am weary and wary of ideologues. Ideologues are believers.
Believers are thoughtless, they have abandoned their responsibility and ability (if they ever had such) for critical thinking. The live in a zero sum world
Ideologies are secular as well as sectarian. Christianity and Islam are secular ideologies, but ideologies just the same, only they call themselves religions, as a form of market segmentation.
Once, one adopts the premises of an ideology, as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, they are no longer their own person, they have become part of the Borg (recalling Star trek)
Thanks William for your response. I totally agree. Having been “educated” by the far Left, I too see these entrenched “camps” as irrelevant, and self-defeating. I have no time for the “overthrow capitalism” crowd. Capitalism is the union of free enterprise and industrialization. Do we really want to eliminate those? No, capitalism can be bridled so that its natural tendency to funnel wealth towards the top is countered and wealth circulates for the benefit of all. I am in the process (as soon as I can master Substack’s system) of posting to Substack a fairly long piece containing memories and conclusions regarding the US Communist Party which you might find interesting. At least I’d be interested in your response.
Yes interested, you can contact me by clicking on my name and choosing Message.
In the meantime I am weary and wary of ideologues. Ideologues are believers.
Believers are thoughtless, they have abandoned their responsibility and ability (if they ever had such) for critical thinking. The live in a zero sum world
Ideologies are secular as well as sectarian. Christianity and Islam are secular ideologies, but ideologies just the same, only they call themselves religions, as a form of market segmentation.
Once, one adopts the premises of an ideology, as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, they are no longer their own person, they have become part of the Borg (recalling Star trek)