on 1/14/07 7:35 PM, Allan Streib at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
Oh, try reading what I wrote before you go Ronnie Reagon on me, ok? They feel our opinion of our personal freedom is a joke viz what actually exists. Mac
