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If a man does his best, what else is there?-- General George S. Patton October 25, 2002TouchstoneI came across this line in the Touchstone, Texas A&M's local liberal loony paper: "So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? One more quote from the same piece: "The bottom line in commercial radio is the bottom line, and entertainment is merely a by-product, if there is any at all." Let me quote my friend Tim on this: "No one will listen if they have no reason to (unless they are simply bored and like listening to ads, which some people do) Nevetheless, the Touchstone writers insist that socialism is not only inevitable, but desirable: "[According to] dialectical analysis...the only rational and humane conclusion is to do everything we can to bring about socialism." What can I say to that? According to Marxist theory, socialism may indeed be the inevitable conclusion, but if it's really inevitable, there's no point worrying about it, since we are merely products of our linguistic chains and "capitalism [cannot] go on destroying lives and the ecology indefinitely." Posted by David at October 25, 2002 12:12 AM | TrackBack
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