Before the predictable urinary contest gets into high gear; suggest a pause and
reflection on Market Capitalism. the title of the post..
As an opinion forum, all are entitled to theirs, yet consider a moment;
Man has walked this earth for some 10,000 years passing through various eras
among them the formative Fertile Crescent, the Classical Era of Greece and Rome,
founders of Western Civilization, the Scholastic Age, the Renaissance, the Reformation.
The hallmark of each was their creative achievement in both art and science driven by
a powerful spiritual attitude and awareness.
Then in the late 18th century, the Enlightenment came along and in its luggage carried
market capitalism, as Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus detailed.
These essentially twin events changed the world dramatically, indefinitely and
arguably, hardly for the better.
Both ushered in materialism as the superior value system for Mankind and we
bear the fruits of that change to this very moment.
Further, the Enlightenment asserted that we are all brothers, which is horse
manure; that freedom trumps all virtues, which is horse manure squared and that
we are all equal, which is horse manure cubed.
Suspect Carlson knows exactly what he is talking about!