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[oldbrowser]

Hysteria is a very profitable product.

[palmer]

But environmentalism is bigger than all this. It's not just green toilet paper and recycled rubber shoes, washing machines that don't work and recycling carts with usage meters on them. It's numbers. And the numbers are really big.

He has a point. However, most libs don't understand the numbers or the fast one that Gore is pulling on them. Ask a lib how much Al sold his TV channel for and who he sold it to. I guarantee only 1 in 100 will know.

The real problem with liberalism is that it is all those small nonsubstantive things. It is simply a mirage. It is all show and tokenism and no substance.

The libs sitting at home think that the green toilet paper makes them green. It doesn't. What would make them green is shivering in a cave without running water (never mind toilet paper) or a car. The use of energy to keep warm and commute to a decent job far exceeds any energy saved (if any) with green tokenism.

[jag.drafting]

nicely written

[popdonnelly]

Great commentary.

[squarebarb]

Brilliant as always.

[GOPJ]

Status itself became a sign of a lack of status. Anyone could buy a suit, so the occupations of the rich became those where you did not have to wear a suit, where you could become very wealthy while wearing jeans, a hoodie and sneakers. The grandsons and granddaughters of the nouveau riche relearned the old lessons of the upper crust that displays of wealth were vulgar and status lay in a self-conscious lack of it. When everyone has cars, you ride a bike. When everyone can afford steak, you buy a thimble cup of 200 dollar organic magic beans. When everyone wants things, you show how little you need things by convincing everyone to go Gandhi and give up things.

Greenfield and I know the same liberals...

[Roses0508]

BUMP

[Albion Wilde]

In the post-modern economy everything is stripped down to its definitions, monetized, hollowed out and resold as an investment to funds and persons scrambling to outrun inflation by investing in consensually real unreal investments.

Zing!!

[Albion Wilde]

Idealism is a commodity and when the investment comes due, you sell out in exchange for power and profit. One minute you're standing in front of a spreadsheet of a quarter ton of cow farts...and the next minute you're opening a business to sell pollution indulgences...

So much brilliance.