[Louis Foxwell]

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[Louis Foxwell]

“Failure cannot be taken out of the system. Failure is the system.”
Greenfield sounds like Ayn Rand.

[VAarea]

If sucide statistics is their main concern, I believe that East Germany established the most effective approach: just abolish the category of death by suicide (although the actual rate was rather high).

Voila, no more suicides in the Worker’s Paradise!

[Excellence]

A very sad but true commentary on post-modern society.

[GOPJ]

The modern engineers of societies think that they are wiser because their nanny states take into account the micro. They tinker with the size of Tylenol containers and think that this means that they are better prepared for the challenges of a rigidly controlled totalitarian state than Lenin and Mao were. They aren't. If anything they are less prepared. Lenin and Mao had the cruel cynical contempt for people so common to Communist dictators. Their idiot stepchildren, part IBM, part George Herbert Mead, all Google, treat people with contempt, but don't even pay enough attention to people to be aware of the contempt that they have for them. Their contempt is as autistically mechanistic as their solutions.

Amazing insight...