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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 25. October | 60 comments (60 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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He will also need to begin the process of redefining "wealth" away from today's definition--endless mountains of stuff. Without this, even a massive reduction in the military budget, and a renunciation of "power projection" (armed extortion) as foreign policy will not help.
This would be a move so inherently heretical that it's hard to think of anyone BUT Obama considering it.

THEN, the balloon will go up.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sat Oct 25th, 2008 at 07:38:09 AM EST
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geezer in Paris:

THEN, the balloon will go up.

because there's no drug as tasty as exceptionalism, and no bigger come-down after either....

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Oct 25th, 2008 at 10:25:22 AM EST
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Yeah.
Whiffs of Chomsky, Johnson,--
----have you been grazing in the fields of the damned?

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Sun Oct 26th, 2008 at 01:49:17 PM EST
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But after all of that advertising which has convinced people that "the good life" is equated to having all of that worthless excess stuff. Sounds like we need a new ad campaign bringing back the '60s - '70s.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sat Oct 25th, 2008 at 10:34:46 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 25. October | 60 comments (60 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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