People don't talk so much of Communism unless it's some knuckle-dragger trying to generate click charges on YouTube and make no mistake of how much money that makes. Alex Jones would live in a kennel if not for that sort of boob-baiting. They do it for the same reason online because it's a way to solicit android friends. Either way, it comes out the the same because it means nothing.
That which is not heard so much anymore is the subject of the Iron Curtain and those who remember eight-tracks, etc will have no trouble recalling it but the Millennials are not likely to know what it means ... because ... capitalism.
Once the international trade started flowing between the U.S. and traditionally-Communist countries much of the hysteria abated and we have seen the result of that in the recent manic response to ISIS in Paris after which the biggest fear was not ISIS but rather a world war between the nuclear powers.
As we have seen the nuclear powers have been falling all over themselves to ensure that will not happen and people are relaxing regarding Paris for that reason.
Because ... capitalism.
The system of capitalism, despite its many current faults, remains, nevertheless, the system which brought down the Communist empires and melted the Iron Curtain. If that's poetry, then it's bad poetry and the Iron Curtain is melted regardless.
All kinds of people take their bows for defeating the Communists but money was the real weapon and the militaristic activity prevented it from working.
The full point of this doesn't even need discussion unless you want it because I know you're already there. Personalities don't even matter as money talks. It may talk in dirty ways and sometimes it does but it has spoken ever since Nixon opened discussion with China. He was a mad dog lunatic in other ways but, in that regard, he did well.
Going into discussion of free markets, laissez faire, and all that rot is beyond my expertise and beyond my willingness to learn it but that goes beyond the fundamental anyway and is not germane. In other words, play with the harmonics all you like but everything remains true to the fundamental root.
Note: the point of this is specifically not that relaxation of concerns regarding Paris is the right thing. That aspect is related to the fundamental but not the specific of it.
That which is not heard so much anymore is the subject of the Iron Curtain and those who remember eight-tracks, etc will have no trouble recalling it but the Millennials are not likely to know what it means ... because ... capitalism.
Once the international trade started flowing between the U.S. and traditionally-Communist countries much of the hysteria abated and we have seen the result of that in the recent manic response to ISIS in Paris after which the biggest fear was not ISIS but rather a world war between the nuclear powers.
As we have seen the nuclear powers have been falling all over themselves to ensure that will not happen and people are relaxing regarding Paris for that reason.
Because ... capitalism.
The system of capitalism, despite its many current faults, remains, nevertheless, the system which brought down the Communist empires and melted the Iron Curtain. If that's poetry, then it's bad poetry and the Iron Curtain is melted regardless.
All kinds of people take their bows for defeating the Communists but money was the real weapon and the militaristic activity prevented it from working.
The full point of this doesn't even need discussion unless you want it because I know you're already there. Personalities don't even matter as money talks. It may talk in dirty ways and sometimes it does but it has spoken ever since Nixon opened discussion with China. He was a mad dog lunatic in other ways but, in that regard, he did well.
Going into discussion of free markets, laissez faire, and all that rot is beyond my expertise and beyond my willingness to learn it but that goes beyond the fundamental anyway and is not germane. In other words, play with the harmonics all you like but everything remains true to the fundamental root.
Note: the point of this is specifically not that relaxation of concerns regarding Paris is the right thing. That aspect is related to the fundamental but not the specific of it.
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