Don't be stealin' my boxen

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Nah, you can have as many as you want actually. Fellow Mencken-ites and fighters of free market fundamentalism are always welcome.

    Nebuchadnezzar (talk)04:17, 7 February 2011

    Philip Pullman calls it "the greedy ghost of market fundamentalism." The link is either in the Saloon Bar or one of the archives, and it's under the heading "Pullman on libraries." I highly recommend it.

    Thanks for the boxen. Feel free to lift any of mine...

      Picon small.pngAcer Blue04:33, 7 February 2011

      Yes, the phrase "capitalist pig" does not draw the crowds that it used to, so the pinkos need a fresher snarl word of identical meaning.

      The header is actually "Pulman on libraries" (this is why I am a grammar-Nazi; "grep" is not as forgiving as the MediaWiki search engine), and is located here.

        Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX04:51, 7 February 2011

        The "greedy ghost" is not the same thing as a "capitalist pig." The former is a metaphor for an ideology, the latter is a label for a person.

          Picon small.pngAcer Blue04:57, 7 February 2011

          To clarify: The snarl word I was referring to is "market fundamentalist."

            Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX04:59, 7 February 2011

            Ah. Well, if you'd call anyone who believes that there might possibly be something that shouldn't be privatized a "pinko," I suppose you'd also have a quarrel with Social Security, Medicare, public schools, et al., to say nothing of public libraries.

              Picon small.pngAcer Blue05:10, 7 February 2011
               
               

              Yeah, damn pinkos! Actually, I'm pretty capitalist, but what we have now is an entire political party arguing for unfettered capitalism (actually more like unfettered for their campaign contributors) in the wake of one of the greatest market failures in history, supported by all sorts of bullshit revisionist history and "research" using Schlafly statistics being cranked out by "think tanks." Now we have CEI and Cato approved versions of history where the robber barons were great heroes, the labor wars never happened (unions, what unions?), FDR was a commie and the New Deal was the biggest policy failure of the 20th century. Yes, keep shoving any failure of capitalism down the memory hole. I'm waiting for the day when one of these think tanks proposes privatizing air. It always reminds me of this Tom Tomorrow cartoon.

                Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:10, 7 February 2011

                Ironically, it was a classical liberal, Frederic Bastiat, who sarcastically proposed privatizing light.

                  Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX05:13, 7 February 2011
                   
                   
                   
                   
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