Though I suspect your not being sincere, I’ll play along. Ames’ argument is not hard to follow, if you have been reading him. If you have and you still don’t get it, you might consider dissonance or Stockholm Syndrome.

Failing the above you might try “A Short Introduction to Noam Chomsky.” by Rush Limbaugh.

Uhh… Duh?

And Ames blames common Americans for Mozilo having his legal fees paid for by a bank getting bailout money? How would the average American do anything to change this? Is a housewife in Iowa is a bumbling fool because she allowed this to happen? What’s she supposed to do, write more letters to her House or Senate representative? Maybe she and her other Garden Club gals could organize an armed coup and lay waste to the oligarchs once and for all. Maybe then Ames would be happy.

Maybe Ames doesn’t care about them. Maybe he’s gratifying his sociopathy by laughing at their delusions. Maybe that’s the most intellectually radical, progressive and effective move, for analyzers of the world. Most morons are beholden to an idiotic moral subconscious that prevents articulation of such sentiments. We have to be “constructive!” after all.

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And you say since I haven’t read Ames’ book, I simply can’t understand the point he’s trying to make. I’m ignorant, so what. I like it that way.

I understand Ames has issues with the American people, and the government. And of course I want Ames and anyone else to freely express their criticisms. Well actually I don’t, but I just like saying that because it makes me sound very moral and upstanding. Actually, I like to suck my cat’s ass every now and then.

@tailpipe
Unless you read Ames’s book, there’s little point to your criticisms. Even if you want to disagree with him, you simply don’t have a grasp of what his stance is. At best, you could argue that his intent isn’t clear from the smattered of articles you’ve read.

You’re almost honest about it. At least the executives took their money by their own efforts, rather than employing someone else to go steal it for them.

And aleke, thanks for your offer to screw me, but I think you’re more of a solo act when it comes to that sort of thing. I wouldn’t want to cut into your “me” time.

Shore. Even the capitalist hero, Adam Smith, was against these scumbags. Hell, he was saying the same shit Marx would say decades later. Including this, from the Wealth of Nations:

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

I’m not necessarily a fan of Noam Chomsky, but he outlined it pretty well here: http://www.chomsky.info/books/warfare02.htm

And here’s a good brief history of modern economics and just how fucked up we are presently: http://rationalrevolution.net/articles/biology_economics.htm

That is, if you didn’t already all know this.

But maybe a sharp decline would be for the best. That’s what started all those radical and revolutionary movements in Russia, after all. It was right after the Crimean war that the first nihilists surfaced. Maybe something good will come out of it decades on down the road.

Hopefully it won’t be dictatorship.

We get it! You love being screwed! My turn: spread wide