Up Late with Pinko the Bear - Midnight to 2 AM - Pacific -

still working on content for the show tonight... should be interesting;)

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” — Isaac Asimov

The only people who grasp the distinction between reality and appearance, who grasp the laws of conduct and society, are the ruling groups and those who do their bidding; scientific, technical elites who elucidate the laws of behavior and the functions of society so that people might be more effectively, albeit unconsciously, governed. - James W. Carey -

If you fear socialism, it's no wonder. For the instant capitalism is overturned, we working people will forget how to grow crops, sew clothing, and build machines. Not only that, but once we start working for ourselves, we will be less motivated to produce than when we take orders from an autocratic employer. And who of us doesn't want a rich industrialist to siphon off the value of our labor for his own profit?
 

Capitalism is an immoral system and it destroys any vestiges of morality in any culture that adopts it. Capitalism violates the Golden Rule; it violates at least four of the Commandments; it repudiates the teachings of Jesus, it transforms the Seven Deadly Sins into best practices for business; it violates Kant's Categorical Imperative, and it turns Utilitarianism's "greatest good for the greatest number" into the "greatest good for the smallest number." It even violates the moral principles Adam Smith put forth in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. No known moral doctrine can be used to support it.