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[farla]

"Yeah, I picked the Cold War for debate because no one knows about it."

His friend nods. "Yeah."

"The Cold War?" I repeat incredulously. "The Cold War? You don't know anything about the Cold War?"

"It was, like, a nuclear arms race," says another boy dismissively. "Now if it was a Hot War or something, that'd be different. With actual fighting. But the Cold War wasn't even a real war."

"We sponsored wars in dozens of countries!" I shout. "We - you can't just - we sponsored wars in dozens of countries! Dozens of - I hate you people."

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[farla.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm starting to wonder if capitalism is actually a short-term only model. Pretty much the only time unbridled capitalism worked was in America, and that was really because America had a surplus of resources. Based on events now, I'm entertaining the idea that capitalism might start becoming bad as resources become finite. Capitalism basically favors the short term (ie, your lifespan) over the long term (ie, your children's lifespans) which becomes bad when we're dealing with finite resources and delayed affects. Witness the total inability to get off oil, the 'what global warming?' party line, the pollution and pollution scandals, etc. And with communism, I'd really like to see more examples that weren't tied to a dictator. Or actual socialism. I'd also like to see more real democracies rather than republics. Cursed uninventive nations...there are a lot of good potential options that are never fully realized, leaving people to postulate based on a few incomplete and/or horribly flawed real world versions. Except for anarchy. That's just stupid.