Conscious Capitalism

[wyndslash]

so how would you define and design a "bridled" form of capitalism? o_o i mean, wouldn't you have to exert some sort of control (we're all being controlled anyway, but i mean perhaps control that some wouldn't like?)? and then wouldn't the people advocating for 'free' markets oppose it? capitalism thrives on competition, after all.

[TGS]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

capitalism thrives on competition, after all.

Or so they would have you believe.

[wyndslash]

Originally Posted by TGS

Or so they would have you believe.

ahhh good point

i love how we're all pawns.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by wyndslash

i think that quote was from his other book Beyond Freedom and Dignity, which i intend to read after Walden Two. his ideas fascinate me and really, he's being very straightforward, but there is a lot of truth in what he says.

Originally Posted by kennyc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Freedom_and_Dignity

People are bodies

The picture which emerges from a scientific analysis is not of a body with a person inside, but of a body which is a person in the sense that it displays a complex repertoire of behavior. . . . What is being abolished is autonomous man — the inner man, the homunculus, the possessing demon, the man defended by the literatures of freedom and dignity. His abolition has long been overdue. . . . Science does not dehumanize man, it de-homunculizes him.[22]

Thank you both! I can die happy. I've looked for that quote for years. Of course, most of my looking was before the age of PCs and the Internet. I first read that line around 1970 or '71.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Then we agree.

I had a suspicion we would!