Reply #115: Which form of excellence

[carla]

are you thinking of? Wolfowitzian? Rumsfeldian? Gatesian? Halliburtonist? "Excellence" is an empty term as far as capitalism is concerned, it does put food on the table but it certainly hasn't made America number 1 in anything worthwhile. "Big consumption" is the term, and it isn't about quality or excellence or intelligence or betterment of the human condition. Capitalism is an economic system that carries no worthwhile moral message. It is rapacious and effective, but an effective rape isn't anything other than rape. As for getting a new organ, perhaps you should retune your brain and stop playing that old Wurlitzer? Capitalism is for losers like Bush and the rest of his criminal lot. Socialism isn't necessarily anti-human, and it also isn't a panacea for all our ills, but it puts human and planetary survival front and center...that's the issue and you'd do well to enter the 21st century instead of accepting the 19th as the only way to go.

Ayn Rand is dead and buried, so is capitalism...