Capitalism has been a vehicle for vastly improving and advancing the human condition. But no system is perfect, and Capitalism's flaws are becoming progressively more apparent. While it is unlikely to collapse as dramatically as Soviet styled Communism, neither is it likely to survive in its current mode.
However, before I delve deeper into this subject, perhaps it would be useful to separate Capitalism from some of its philosophical underpinnings that are as vital to a democracy as to a Capitalist paradigm of economic enterprise.
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Cast a stone into the water and watch the ripples spread. Russia's incursion into Georgia is such an event. Georgia just got stoned, and we will feel the ripples. It is not just Georgia that is profoundly affected by this event. It's not even the Ukraine, and Belorussia, and Finland, and Estonia and Lithuania, and Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, and all the other 'stans which are the remnants of the old Soviet empire. It's not even Poland which just signed a treaty to allow us to deploy anti ballistic missiles on its soil, and received a threat of nuclear attack from the Russian high command in response.
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A few weeks ago T. Boone Pickens unveiled his energy plan to deal with our oil addiction. At the same time, Al Gore put forth his own prescription for the energy crisis, apparently coming to the realization that the energy crisis will drive the climate crisis, because we will respond to the energy crisis by any means necessary, even at the risk of the climate. Neither readily embraced the other's position, though both are apparently singing from the same hymnal.
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