Harry Pollard wrote:
One major warning! Socialism and Communism and their spin-offs have provenHello Harry,
themselves to be hopeless at increasing production. The international
conferences to "solve the problems" are loaded who want to "provide proper
services".
Long time no read but you are still beating the same horse. Actually
the
refugees from the former communist countries are so well trained that
they
are doing just fine once they were allowed to take their training and
intellectual
capital and run away to the older and more advanced economies.
But all is
not well here.
USA Today pointed out last Wednesday on their front page that America's
computer companies are creating their own Berlin
walls around their hired and company trained help. Sound familiar?
"Mr. Gates tear down that wall!"
Like the stores filled with communist fashions on 34th street in NYCity,
fashions that were considered junk when the old Soviet Union existed
are
now high fashion. It's all just politics, hypocrisy and whoever
has the
media and money. Communism, like Capitalism has huge
problems
but the problems bear little resemblance to either side's rhetoric.
Otherwise American business and Republican Congressman wouldn't
be sounding like apparatchiks when it comes to facing the same
problems that an ulcerous Berlin was in the 1950s before their bloody
wall. Do I think that American businesses would do the
same (with
guards and all) if they could, you bet. Read how Truman applied
the
same person and process to the Indian problem as had worked with
the Japanese in world war II in Chief Wilma Mankiller's biography.
America didn't win the cold war we just spent the East's young
nations
broke and now are in the process of being locked out by the intellectual
capital of their refugees.
And then there is their so called "non creative" artists. Anyone
who believes
that should get a life, that crap will just make them seem foolish
before their
children who will be taught by the refugees in every school from k-conservatory.
My daughter's favorite acting teacher (who is Russian Jewish ) is taking
his
most proficient students to Russia next year to study Stanislavsky
techniques.
What most people complain about in both Communism and Capitalism is
really culture and convention and is older than both systems.
One should
sit down and have a read in literature that pre-dates both. Discussions
about "interest" for example in Roman Catholic literature of the middle
ages.
Or have a read in the Nicene and Anti-Nicene Fathers. There is
little that is
new in the present. Digitalized libraries and decent search engines
will be
the real revolution of the 21st century. It will
decimate the book industry
as old rehashed ideas in new form are considered the banal trash that
they are. Politicans will be shown to have switched
sides many times
and ignorance and banality will be shown for what it is, mere commercial
entertainment. That will be the real test of Capitalism.
What constitutes
real change and expansion?
We had better learn that the stories of the last 150 years here and
70
years in the Eastern bloc were mostly hype and that a nation filled
with good
weather and a huge reservoir of natural resources with 200 years of
stability
against a group of nations that were barely seven decades old coming
from
below third world status was never a fair contest. That it was
a contest at
all speaks very highly for these 20th century systems.
That they were
violent, murderous and lied constantly is not something that I would
consider new. The lead pollution that I carry in my bones and
the problems
experienced by the children on my reservation even today show
the
hypocrisy of both sides and the foolish resistance of those who are
being
ignored, and exploited, to demanding recompense.
If America doesn't learn to read and be honest about their history,
the rest
of the world will (as scholars at Oxford are doing about pre-columbian
forest
technology in America) and show us for the provencial fools that we
are
turning out to be.
REH
