At 11/3/05 03:33 AM, EagleRock wrote:
You also see the captialization in post-9/11 merchandise, where I saw people trying to sell stuff left and right to people trying to mourn their losses. Stuff like that just makes me sick. The most common offense to this are those ribbon magnets for the back of your car and the rubber bracelet empire (not the ones you get when you donate, the ones you buy. Most of these items are just another way to get some money out of your average head-up-their-ass consumer who falls for every marketing gimmick possible. For a more in-depth view on this, I'd check page 1 of this thread. I go into detail there.
I agree dude. Unfortunatley though, our country is completely run on capital, so the greedy money-grubbers try to grasp change off of anything. It's terrible. I was reading Marx's "Communist Manifesto", and he barely talks about communism, merely talks about the frustrations of capitalism. And I agree, to an extent, that capitalism is definately a sick, greedy system.
Unfortunately, I'm a huge individualist. I feel that rights come above everything. Capitalism definately gives us some major rights. I'm also a fan of socialism, of which I wish our country would adopt a few more qualities.
But yes, to make profit off of others' misfortunes is a sick offense.
At 11/4/05 02:47 AM, TheRevolutionary wrote:
I feel I must point out that 3000 deaths isn't very many. Look at africa, they matched the death toll of the Tsunami in just a couple weeks, through general poverty.
In the grand scheme of things, no, 3000 is nothing.
But when you think about it. Can you even picture 3000 people? That is a lot of fucking people.
And yes, things in Africa are very fucked up, definately. If only Bush hadn't put us in such a financial shit-hole, maybe we could help them out a little bit. But I'm not sure how much we would be able to do, seeing as how most Americans are, unfortunately, much more compassionate for their fairer skinned friends, whether they like to acknowledge it or not.
