Human beings definitely are unbelievably inquisitive, filled with wanderlust, and yearning for the security of property and shelter, and distributed unevenly among us lusts for recognition, fame, and power. Humanity has been a bumpy but exciting romp since we first stood upright and our larynx descended. You are never going to get anywhere near understanding humanity with your magic box of interminable “isms” as your only asset.

“Has id Garret responsible in this?”

Butterfield, Bloomfield & Bishop

12 Feb 10 at 2:22 pm

Oh, boy, and you accuse other people of doublethink. No, there was nothing incidental about “Britain’s prosperity depended, in part, on extracting exports from Ireland”, THR, but England and other colonial powers have been routinely enriching themselves in this manner since before the on-set of modernity yet you think that ‘capitalism’ is the key. By your own reckoning, to distinguish between a variety of economic policies such as mercantilism, etc. that might obtain in any economic order that might be pursued by various governments is to engage in what you fantastically call ‘doublethink’.

Really? Humans have an ‘attack and exploit the neighbours’ gene/brain function?

But again, it is in the nature of man to go looking for more energy. Capitalism got nuffin’ to do with it.

Oh I get it. Only the banks were involved in CRA lending. That’s what you’re trying to tell me I “thin”.

Look dopey, this isn’t the thread to be discussing this.

CRA was part of government policy to increase home ownership in minority groups. Fred and Fannie were an integral party of that policy.

Now stop ruining good threads and go away, Debbie you dope.

One trait of human beings that has never let up since we left the trees is violent warfare. Your challenge is to somehow link capitalism to enticing and provoking a more virulent expression of that innate human trait. It is very easy to so link ideologies of utopian eschatology such as Communism, but I can’t imagine how can you tie something that is very difficult to identify – this “capitalism” that so peeves you.

Business losing faith in Rudd.