On Apr 7, 8:07=A0am, Jerry Kraus <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080407/ap_on_bi_ge/microsoft_yahoo
>
> I wrote a piece a while back, "Heart of Darkness: Capitalism as a
> Religion",
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/browse_thread/thre...
>
> =A0in which I pointed out that Joseph Conrad's masterpiece "Heart of
> Darkness", also the basis for Francis Ford Coppola's film epic
> "Apocalypse Now", =A0is essentially a critique of the absurdity and
> destructiveness of Capitalism run amok. =A0The main character, Kurtz,
> who has built an empire in Africa by stealing from and abusing the
> natives, and making himself their God, dies mouthing the words "the
> Horror, the Horror...".
>
> As we watch Steve Ballmer of Microsoft and Jerry Yang of Yahoo engage
> in their obscene, ritual mating dance of Mamon, one cannot help having
> a rather similar feeling. =A0As the U.S. economy collapses, and the
> people of Iraq are exterminated simply and solely to provide grist for
> the U.S. economic mill, these two Capitalist weasels are whining and
> groping about who can get more money for who. =A0"I want more money".
> "No, I WANT MORE MONEY." =A0"I deserve more money." =A0"No. I DESERVE
MORE=
> MONEY." =A0 "If you don't give me more money, I won't play with you."
> "If you won't play with me, I'm going to take all of your money."
>
> What we really have here is classic pagan idolatry. =A0Ballmer and Yang
> have stripped themselves ****d, slicked and painted their bodies with
> colored dye, and are writhing and panting to the ritual chantings of
> their shareholders as they move closer and closer, tantalizingly and
> inevitably to the final, thorougly revolting final orgiastic
> consummation. =A0 The Horror. =A0 The Horror.
I approach the problem from another angle. Uncontrolled capitalism is
responsible
for the horrendous problem of illegal immgration. Any thing for a
quick buck and
to hell with the future. United States Chamber of Commerce biggest
offender.
Google "third position politics", maybe something of interest there.
Alex
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