[CLUE-Talk] Re: A Call to Action

[Matt Gushee]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:33:01PM -0600, Jed S. Baer wrote:

> > > > Well, how about communism?  Surely, it is hard to argue that its
> > > > implementation in USSR was successful.
> > >
> > > Jeff, Jeff, Jeff ... get a grip. I'm not talking about communism. You
> > > are.
> > 
> > I have a 'grip' -- I was responding to your question of the previous
> > poster's assertion - that these 'experiments have been mostly flawed'. 
> > I attempted to address your general sentiment as expressed in the
> > following paragraph (quoted from your post that started this thread):
> > 
> > "As America's economic malaise drags on with no end in sight, it is
> > becoming increasingly apparent that our traditional economic
> > institutions are not going to help us out of this mess. Indeed, they
> > have no intention of doing so: political and corporate leaders are far
> > too busy trying to save themselves and their nest eggs to worry about
> > anyone else. In short, THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN."
> 
> Oh, I'm too tired to worry about useful snipping. It seams most people
> automatically assume communism when people talk about alternatives to the
> "current system". In context, it looks as if various comments have sorta
> gotten mushed together.

Thank you, Jed. Both for stating an important point and for helping me
cool down. I was in danger of virtually strangling Jeff. And I really
don't want to do that, even though I think he's being very thick-headed
today ;-)

-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
mgushee at havenrock.com
http://www.havenrock.com/