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[...] The reforms sought by the Sierra Club would not fundamentally change how our society relates to the environment any more than the reforms called for by the Human Society would alter the position of animals relative to human beings. Reforms such as these are chiefly aimed at easing the conscie…

"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? Then why do we feel it even when the observation tower comes equipped with a sturdy handrail? No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness …

[...] When the International Monetary Fund forces austerity measures on a country, it's not like there's less food, housing, or education to go around than before--the problem is that the current economic system can't distribute access to these according to human need. The same goes for famines tha…

[...] illegal capitalists are no different from their legal counterparts. If General Motors had no legal system through which to enforce patent rights, they would surely take matters into their own hands, or be supplanted by a company that would. The legal apparatus of the state is like a vast, mon…

The bankers who set out to cash in by ripping off homebuyers were simply obeying the imperatives of financial capitalism--those who didn't were replaced by less scrupulous competitors. The same goes for the homebuyers who took out loans beyond their means and the insurers whose guarantees only made…