[Rockingham]

The Pope’s attack on money and the modern “throwaway culture” is misplaced in that it criticizes the “creative destruction” that is one of capitalism’s virtues, with human ingenuity developing improved products and technologies that supplant older and less capable ones. In such comments the Pope reveals that he believes in the Marxist critique of capitalism.

[2ndDivisionVet]

He’s from Argentina, home of Juan and Eva Peron.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

With your comment I most heartily endorse you because people are missing the point.

this Francis stuff really needs to be investigated or he’s gotta’ go.- he’s a marxist for crying out loud and endorses gerbal (sic) warming, etc.... He wouldn’t even meet with Dalai Lama for pete’s sake because he was afraid of “upsetting the Chinese’ “FEELING”. I’m no buddhist or whatever you want to call them but to turn down a major religious figure in a meeting? call me crazy.

AH!, perhaps HE is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.

personally i don’t endorse him at all

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I wouldn't definitively say that creative destruction is a virtue. A lot of modern technology and (and the resulting products) from so-called advances makes life easier and more convenient, but better? No. Are we better off with mass-produced clothing from china? Are we better off with iphones and androids and who knows what else locked onto our hips, never letting us get away from work? Are we better off with the previously unimaginable access to fatty/tasty/sugar-filled/genetically-modified foodstuffs? It's better than starving at least. The human body is the ultimate tool and weapon, but modern "civilized" man has the luxury of letting it decay into a mound of useless fat.

Are we better off with constant, never-ending international transit and trade? Nope. Are we better off with TVs in every room? Nope. The march of human progress has trampled a lot of what was wholesome into the ground.