Posted on 08/01/2013 5:48:58 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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The flat earthers are the mindless enviro fanatics who are oh so firmly committed to a return to feudalism. Their breathless, witless, fascist preachments are the stuff of nightmares and monsters. Avoid them, at all cost.
We should not rob from the gleaners.
That’s a stupid article.
Describe what is stupid about the article.
The rich love the poor but hate the middle-class.
Nothing makes the mountain feel magnificent more than a deep valley.
Death worshippers.
it moves with dazzling incongruity between a couple of specific cases (misleadingly described at that) to sweeping idiotic generalizations that are neither proven nor even illustrated by the examples given.
He didn’t mention the bicycles, so I will.
Bicycles are cool. I rode bikes for years and was one of the original Boston Bicycle Messengers (and WHAT a figure I had back then! LOL!).
That being said, “Bicycles” are a tremendous symbol of what he is describing in the article. When I see a bunch of elite snobs hogging the street their $1000+ bicycles, with their skin-tight spandex racing clothes (covered in advertising logos) made in polluting, exploitative, slave-labor factories in China, and their sneering, I’m-so-superior attitudes, I just wanna puke at their hypocrisy!
Dan is not decrying proper stewardship of the earth’s resources. He is lambasting the hypocrisy that masquerades as it.
:-)
To the slum dwellers, the beast isn't capitalism, it's that gnawing feeling in your stomach when you haven't eaten for a day. But Peter Buffett, who lives a life almost as privileged as Prince Charles, bemoans the idea of getting people to the point where they aren't worried about where their next meal is coming from because it just turns them into capitalists and consumers. And before you know it, they're buying big screen televisions and writing op-eds in the New York Times on the futility of philanthropy.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if for one week - just one week - liberal elite blowhards could live at the dump outside Managua Nicaragua and 'pick' along with the folks who live there?
Greenfield is brilliant. He has an eye for the important issues. His level of analysis is remarkable. He is an excellent writer. He does this almost every day. The man is amazing.
New York Times won a Pulitzer for covering up this horror...
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Now THAT’S Bicycling, for real.
Feudalism never really went away.
Elite snobs do not need to share the plight of the poor from their limos. They need to be impoverished, starving, without friends or support. They must be genuinely poor. I believe that can be arranged.
A culture committed to morality will not support the purveyors of vulgarity. That will end this ridiculous reign of blathering imbeciles who want only for the culture to grind down to their level.
This is perhaps tangental to the essay, but I would like to see the development of 3-D printing to the point that goods sent even from one city to another in-country could be reduced to a computer file sent via Internet, and hard goods then produced locally. It would cut down the amount of traffic, fuel use and emissions from truck hauling.
Of course, it would put a lot of the truck-stop prostitutes out of business... hard to imagine them congregating outside the 3-D printshop... :-)
For an Inner City Bicycle Messenger, toe-clips could spell the difference between jumping off the bike before the bus hits it....or NOT. :-)
My Territory was Boston, Cambridge, and The North End, with $1.00 extra if i had to go to the DMV...just because of the aggravation. The Episcopal Archbishop registered a complaint against me because my hot pants were too SHORT. LOL
Sometimes i would see white outlines of people on the street, and it was a few years later i learned what that MEANT! LOL
Ahhhhh...those were the days!
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