http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:39:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-28810 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-28810#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:39:27 +0000 asleybritney http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-28810 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-28810/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-28261 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-28261#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:01:01 +0000 Scum http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-28261 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-28261/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27754 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http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27458#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:54:21 +0000 LondonLee http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27458 is the job of government to protect people from the worst excesses of corporations the same way they protect people from hurricanes and floods and terrorism.]]> is the job of government to protect people from the worst excesses of corporations the same way they protect people from hurricanes and floods and terrorism.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27458/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27445 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27445#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:58:43 +0000 oudemia http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27445 As opposed to, what, he barters some theater screens in exchange for donuts and then invites us all on Facebook? Please, you catty bitches. Looooove.]]> As opposed to, what, he barters some theater screens in exchange for donuts and then invites us all on Facebook? Please, you catty bitches. Looooove.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27445/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27444 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27444#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:56:01 +0000 oudemia http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27444 Crass themselves owed me a living. Hey! Steve Ignorant! Gimme a dollar for a soda!]]> Crass themselves owed me a living. Hey! Steve Ignorant! Gimme a dollar for a soda!]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27444/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27442 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27442#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:25:16 +0000 raincoaster http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27442 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27442/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27440 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27440#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:04:58 +0000 carpetblogger http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27440 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27440/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27438 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27438#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:18:35 +0000 Abe Sauer http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27438 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27438/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27435 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27435#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:49:45 +0000 toadvine http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27435 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27435/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27431 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27431#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:28:24 +0000 zack petrick http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27431 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27431/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27429 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27429#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:13:04 +0000 Natasha Vargas-Cooper http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27429 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27429/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27425 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27425#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:50:39 +0000 Moff http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27425 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27425/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27421 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27421#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:29:14 +0000 zack petrick http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27421 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27421/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27420 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27420#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:28:01 +0000 Bucko http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27420 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27420/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27418 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27418#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:16:08 +0000 johnpseudonym http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27418 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27418/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27417 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27417#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:12:36 +0000 NotAndersonCooper http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27417 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27417/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27415 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27415#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:41:21 +0000 Tulletilsynet http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27415 design a system that takes into account that perhaps shelter and medical care should be a priority to have for everyone." (Love that "perhaps"!) "Design a system" indeed. Who ever did that?]]> design a system that takes into account that perhaps shelter and medical care should be a priority to have for everyone." (Love that "perhaps"!) "Design a system" indeed. Who ever did that?]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27415/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27414 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27414#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:40:12 +0000 HiredGoons http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27414 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27414/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27413 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27413#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:39:09 +0000 HiredGoons http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27413 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27413/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27411 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I don't mean, like, in a Malthusian, there's-not-enough-food sense (although that is an issue too, of course). I just mean, like, founding new countries was really difficult 200+ years ago, when the populations involved were much smaller, had access to much less information, and also couldn't share their opinions nearly as easily. Now, how would you even do some kind of reboot? When you want to change something in the U.S. alone, you not only have to deal with tens of millions of voters (and hundreds of millions of just people), you have to deal with the fact that so many of them (including, say, me) imagine they are qualified to hold an opinion on subjects they are totally unqualified to hold opinions on. Maybe this isn't a problem -- maybe since time immemorial, the Common Man has shaken his head and explained to his neighbors just what the government needs to be doing and why. But it feels like that Common Man is a lot more common these days. I don't know. I guess incremental change? I really despair sometimes, though, that we've gotten ourselves in too deep for that to be helpful. And I kind of wish some benevolent, unkillable superperson-wizard would declare the world an absolute monarchy for the next few decades, put things in order, and then slowly let us have all our freedom back.]]> too many people now? I don't mean, like, in a Malthusian, there's-not-enough-food sense (although that is an issue too, of course). I just mean, like, founding new countries was really difficult 200+ years ago, when the populations involved were much smaller, had access to much less information, and also couldn't share their opinions nearly as easily. Now, how would you even do some kind of reboot? When you want to change something in the U.S. alone, you not only have to deal with tens of millions of voters (and hundreds of millions of just people), you have to deal with the fact that so many of them (including, say, me) imagine they are qualified to hold an opinion on subjects they are totally unqualified to hold opinions on. Maybe this isn't a problem -- maybe since time immemorial, the Common Man has shaken his head and explained to his neighbors just what the government needs to be doing and why. But it feels like that Common Man is a lot more common these days. I don't know. I guess incremental change? I really despair sometimes, though, that we've gotten ourselves in too deep for that to be helpful. And I kind of wish some benevolent, unkillable superperson-wizard would declare the world an absolute monarchy for the next few decades, put things in order, and then slowly let us have all our freedom back.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27377/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27375 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27375#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:03:48 +0000 gregorg http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27375 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27375/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27374 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27374#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:03:08 +0000 NicFit http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27374 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27374/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27372 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27372#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:56:49 +0000 wiilliiaamm http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27372 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27372/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27371 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27371#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:53:55 +0000 johnpseudonym http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27371 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/flicked-off-capitalism-a-love-story#comment-27371/feed 0