
Originally Posted by
TheGooner
You deliberately edited to misquote? Why?
Yes - I think using the interpreted views of an invisible,silent, and almost certainly non-existent being is insane, criminal and when used to suppress others indefensible.
The real quote :
I get that the world is a big place - filled with 8 billion people who probably don't think the same way I do - but lets at least keep the quotes honest if we want to diatribe off and and present an alternate point of view.
You think that capitalist culture is also strange and "empty". It probably is because it doesn't offer life answers - just living processes - but it's been the best system of living for delivering flow of wealth, and flow of ideas that humans have found so far.
One day we might get to a Star Trek utopia where there is so much wealth that everyone is fed and happy - but given human nature - we will probably just find something else to fight about.

The quote was not marked by you and I double marked the change for a reason. I will leave it at least for now like that, but the reason is there to think about.
It makes no sense to talk about god, capitalism or socialism as about concepts. It is endless blabbering about things which for everyone mean something else. But all those ideas create certain societies.
So to make it short the the postmodern "capitalistic" society will have to prove durability. For example the system of so called "communism" was nice for many people, it really was. The people think about it even after 30 years. The problem was the same, the sustainability. Yes, it was great to have water, electricity, housing and food almost for free. It was a ****** quality, but for non-competitive people it was not bad. Until it lasted.
I love this "capitalism". Stupid, desperate people, who are losing their energy drop by drop and in the end they go and gamble. I really can not complain. The problem however, is how this has to survive, because this wonderful capitalism with human face is becoming more socialistic than the "communist systems", because the real people are ... people. I do not hate consumerism because I hate to consume. (I love Coca-Cola, I like to drive fast cars and I fly long haul all the time). I just feel the obsession with consumption, where the emptiness after god was simply replaced by credit card, is a totally destructive idea for the mind, people and society based on it.
If you ever leave 1st world, you might be surprised how many people think exactly this (but indeed they live in their own fairy-tale, that is [maybe always] self-destructive too). I remember one old guy I met in Rio. I told him about my family and how people in Europe live, he nodded and just said "This is because you left Jesus". I am really far from being religious, I just had conflict with one utterly stupid orthodox Christian family. But what you probably do not get is that God and Religion are even more distant than USSR economy of 80s' and Marxistic ideas or capitalism of Adam Smith and "capitalism" of first world. You are imposing on other people your belief of what you think their belief is.
Going back to Iran. I am sure it is not what we are supposed to think.
We are all bloodsucking ticks, hungry, devious
each one latched on to the ass of the previous
when the last and the first latch on it can be shown
ass-blood sucked by the first from the last is his own