[P2P-F] Fwd: Robert Steele: Trip Report – Occupy Wall Street 6 October 2011 – Second American Revolution is Real

[Karl Robillard]

On Thursday, October 13, 2011 04:08:25 am Michel Bauwens wrote:
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> From: Robert Steele <robert.david.steele.vivas at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 3:27 AM
> Subject: Robert Steele: Trip Report – Occupy Wall Street 6 October 2011 –
> Second American Revolution is Real
> To: Robert.David.Steele.Vivas at gmail.com
> 
> 
> Robert Steele: Trip Report – Occupy Wall Street 6 October 2011 – Second
> American Revolution is
> Real<http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/10/robert-steele-trip-report-occupy-wa
> ll-street-6-october/>Ron Paul keeps surprising.  Integrity does appear to
> be coming back into style.


It's funny/sad how few seem to be able to put the pieces together.  Mr. Steele 
writes:
    "Capitalism is a process that can be moral or immoral–Steve Jobs was 
capitalism at its best, while Alan Greenspan remains capitalism at its worst, 
corrupt to the core."

Umm.... no.  The economic elites like Steve Jobs are just as detrimental to 
human freedom as the financial elites.  When one person becomes conditioned to 
accept the controls that another wants to impose a harm has been done and 
society has failed.

Eric Raymond on the Jobster:
    "What’s really troubling is that Jobs made the walled garden seem cool. He 
created a huge following that is not merely resigned to having their choices 
limited, but willing to praise the prison bars because they have pretty window 
treatments."

The same can be said of capitalism itself, though both Robert and Eric would 
deny it.


-Karl