Steve MacSween <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want a stinging critique on how 'free' our consumer/consumption-based > system really is, find someone who emigrated here from the countries of the > former Soviet Union, AND is old enough to remember the old system AND > experienced their opened-up society prior to emigrating here. > > If you have any Disney-esque conceptions about our society (and I am > speaking of both the U.S. and Canada when I say that), you won't like their > take on us at all. > > In a nutshell, they feel our current state of personal freedom is a joke, > our economy is about to self-destruct, and our society is extremely > corrupt.
Personal freedom in the US a "joke" compared to the Soviet Union? Please. The problem I see with society here today is people not wanting to accept the responsibilities that come with freedom -- not a lack of the latter. Allan -- 1983 300D 1966 230
