[extropy-chat] Jack's right, he's not ready for reality

[John K Clark]

Jack Parkinson" <isthatyoujack at icqmail.com

> "Winners" are not to be adored as Darwinian success stories

Because evolution has been such a flop, producing only such minor things as
bacteria, eukaryotes, multi celled organisms, you, me, and Wal-Mart.

> especially if their 'wins' are only able to be appreciated in
> economic terms

Heaven forbid winning be judged on anything as objective and unambiguous as
numbers. Something shouldn't be judged a winner just because it wins, what
kind of silly reason is that? No, winners should be judged by the personal
likes and dislikes of Jack Parkinson, or by people who have the exact same
preferences as Jack Parkinson. Jack has graciously agreed to inform us when
something is not allowed even though a lot of people want it and it will
make a lot of people a lot of money because Jack has determined it will
"hurt society", and we all know that Jack's voice speaks for society. So
ignore the trillions of tiny economic decisions billions of people make
every day, Jack is smarter than all of them put together.

> Conservative capitalism's love of the big players is (I think)
> a form of false idolatry.

If you want to get rid of the capitalist "big players" (why you'd want to do
that is beyond me) then you're going to need something even bigger to do it,
HUGE government.

> this means in my opinion that there is still plenty of scope for
> everything to go terribly wrong.

Boy are you ever right! It's interesting, for some reason people love to
dwell on the bad things business has done, but if you put all the evil
business has committed over the last century together in one big lump I
can't find a word stronger than "naughty" to describe it compared to the
horrors committed by government. Perhaps Wal-Mart hasn't treated
its employees with enough consideration from time to time, but at
least Wal-Mart doesn't push people into ovens.

   John K Clark