Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Brain teaser for you all: anarchy as a political system is generally understood to be a bad thing, yet anarchy as an economic system is generally accepted as how things ought to be. Why? The huge gaping flaw to political anarchy is that someone with power is able to utilize that power over others to extend their own power, etc - without restraint. Doesn't capitalism do the same thing? The more I think about, the more I realize that capitalism really is fatally flawed. I'm not saying that a planned economy is the answer - I'm no Marxist - but unrestrained capitalism doesn't work any better than political anarchy, since human beings aren't going to always think of others first. That's fine and understandable - it just means that we need police and high taxes on the rich, to keep those who abuse the system in check.

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So yeah, Baghdad's fallen. Good - but how are we going to bring any sense of law and order there? There are no cops in the major cities, more or less - they've vanished. Do we put US troops onto the streets of Baghdad as police? Oh yeah, THAT'll work well. We've got goodwill with the Shi'ites right now - it won't be hard to lose that goodwill, and I have every faith in the Bush administration's ability to do just that...

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So I'm driving home tonight and I'm listening to the radio...and I recognize the DJ's voice. I couldn't figure out where I recognized him from, until I heard his name: Andy Hicks. I went to the WBCN web page, and lo and behold, it is the Andy Hicks I knew from high school. He's a DJ on the biggest rock station in Boston. Freaky.
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