Re: peak oil revisited

From: doog (doog_at_toz.it.na)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:05:05 -0900

Immortalist wrote:
>
> "doog" <doog@toz.it.na> wrote in message news:420F0C7F.1030305@toz.it.na...
>
>> Immortalist's defense of capitalists[lovers of money] greed[love of
>> money] as a model/engine for economic growth at the expense of others
>> is both ludicrous, inhumane, and insane. Not suprising since
>> immortalist is most likely a bio-machine defending ITs programmed life
>> by running ITs programmed program of educated-idiocy IT has been
>> taught to believe/protect/defend/serve.
>>
>> With that...
>>
>
> The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim
> that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true
> that capitalism does but this is merely a secondary consequence. The
> moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only
> system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's
> survival qua man, and its ruling principle is: Justice.
> --Ayn Rand
>
> http://www.capitalism.org/
>
> Celebrate Capitalism!
>
> "For the love of freedom! And the glory of human creativity!"
>
> Capitalism is the only system based on the recognition that each
> individual owns his life. Capitalism is the only social system in which
> individuals are free to pursue their rational self-interest, to own
> property and to profit from their actions. It entrenches individual
> rights, limited Constitutional government, and
> political/intellectual/economic freedom.
>
> The more capitalist a culture - the greater its freedom and prosperity
>
> That is the verdict of history. In just two short centuries, capitalism
> has lifted men’s living standards to heights undreamed of in the
> pre-capitalist era. Often forgotten today is that Western Europe, prior
> to the capitalist revolution of the late Eighteenth Century, suffering
> under the political yoke of the feudal aristocracy, was the equivalent
> of a Third World country - wracked by famine, recurrent plague, and the
> most unspeakable poverty. But no longer.
>
> When was the last time a famine occurred in any capitalist nation -
> whether in Western Europe, North America or Asia? The United States has
> never suffered a famine in its history. Capitalism has created abundance
> unmatched in human history, enabling hundreds of millions to live better
> today than all the kings of yesterday.
>
> Less capitalism means more human misery
>
> But the non capitalist nations - the fascist, socialist, military or
> theocratic dictatorships - enslave their own citizens and subsist in
> abysmal squalor. In many African countries the living standard is one or
> two hundred dollars per year. In North Korea, they starve to death by
> the tens of thousands. In Cuba, they drown trying to swim to freedom in
> the United States. Millions of oppressed people around the globe yearn
> to emigrate to the Free World. But who in the capitalist nations seeks
> to emigrate to Cambodia?
>
> http://www.celebratecapitalism.org/
> http://www.celebratecapitalism.org/bernsteindeclaration/english/index.html
>
> Capitalism is a difficult, problematic term; it applies to a diversity
> of phenomenon spread across disparate historical cultures with
> substantially variable world views. However, the term is an
> Enlightenment European term used to describe European practices; so the
> term "capitalism" means more than just a body of social practices easily
> applied across geographical and historical distances, it is also a "way
> of thinking," and as a way of thinking does not necessarily apply to
> earlier European origins of capitalism or to capitalism as practiced in
> other cultures.
>
> The earliest forms of capitalism—which we call "mercantilism"—originate
> in Rome, the Middle East, and the early Middle Ages. Mercantilism might
> be roughly defined as the distribution of goods in order to realize a
> profit. Goods are bought at one site for a certain price and moved to
> another site and sold at a higher price. As the Roman empire expanded,
> mercantilism correspondingly expanded. But the contraction of the Roman
> empire from the fifth century onwards also contracted mercantilism
> until, by the 700's, it was not a substantial aspect of European
> culture, that is, European economies tended to localize. Arabic
> cultures, on the other hand, had a long history of mercantilism, living
> as they did on the trade routes between three great empires: Egypt,
> Persia, and later Byzantium. As Islam from the seventh century A.D.
> onwards spread like wildfire across Northern Africa, Spain, the Middle
> East and Asia, Arabic mercantilism assumed an unprecedented global
> character. The medieval Europeans essentially learned mercantilism from
> their Islamic neighbors, evidenced in large part by the number of
> economic terms in European languages that are derived from Arabic, such
> as tariff and traffic. From the 1300's, Europeans would begin expanding
> their mercantile practices, resulting in a social mobility hitherto
> unseen in European culture as well as pushing Europeans, as it did the
> Muslims, to explore distant parts of the globe. The voyages of discovery
> were entirely driven by mercantile ambitions.
>
> As time went on in Europe, mercantilism gradually evolved into economic
> practices that would eventually be called capitalism. Capitalism is
> based on the same principle as mercantilism: the large-scale realization
> of a profit by acquiring goods for lower prices than one sells them.
>
> http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/CAPITAL.HTM
>
> http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM%20Internet.pdf

Capitalism is guilty of profound crimes against humanity throughout history.

The love of money[capitalism] is the root for all evil throughout history.

Claiming capitalism[love of money] is a good thing is sheer lunacy.

Defending the indefensible is a lesson in educated idiocy.

Why not simply learn to share for the good of all our relations?

Why not make all in-common goods and services free for all?
Why not barter for all un-common goods and services?

usuryfree.net
reformation.org/moneychangers.html
abolishmoney.com

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