<div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/3 spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I like this guy. It reminds me of myself:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel/ideas-have-sex-and-we-re-better-for-it.html" target="_blank">http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel/ideas-have-sex-and-we-re-better-for-it.html</a></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>I have never thought much of Stossel. Here's my reply as posted to the comments section for his article:<br><br><div style="width:590px;overflow:hidden">Stossel's a dim bulb
preaching to all his fellow dim bulbs out there. I commend him on his
personal success, but based as it is on drinking and passing around the
Fox Kool-aid to his fellow DBs, it's not much of an accomplishment.<br>
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A pleasant article, mostly right, but we could do without the obligatory
slams against "central planning" slash "guvmint" -- a hold-over from
the era of blind screaming anti-communism. <br>
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Central planning -- in the form of Communism -- brought backward Czarist
Russia to super-power status in less than 70 years (including a brief
pause to defeat Nazi Germany). Central planning -- in the form of
Communism --brought a billion destitute Chinese peasants to modernity
and imminent economic dominance in 60 years. On the battlefield,
central planning by a country only one-twentieth its size frustrated
(defeated, actually) the world's preeminent military superpower. In a
mere 25 years, central planning -- MITI -- brought Japan from defeat and
utter destruction after WW2 to the top tier of technical sophistication
and economic power. And, in case you hadn't noticed, central planning
at the corporate level is the operational foundation of enterprise
capitalism.<br>
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Hard to miss, all those successes of central planning.<br>
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If Stossel could drop his ideological prejudice, and the stupidity that
naturally results. he might actually be able to write little essays
about the obvious -- innovation by free people with resources at their
disposal can accomplish great things, .....well duh! -- and be taken
seriously by folks with actual intellectual standing, ie folks outside
the DB crowd that shares Stossel's prejudices. </div>
<br> **************************************************************<br><br>Stossel reminds me not the least little bit, Spike, of your technical depth and breadth or your humor-enhanced >H vision. Stossel's got optimism? Great. I'm a big fan of optimism. Everyone should have a sunny outlook, whether warranted or not. Reminds me of the old joke about Jesus on the cross. His followers are solemnly passing by and someone notices that Jesus's lips are moving, so one of them gets up and puts his ear real close, and hears Jesus softly murmuring: "I love a parade."<br>
<br> *************************************************************** <br><br>This Jason Silva guy,... this reminds guy me of you. A couple of espressos and your right up there with him.<br><a href="http://vimeo.com/34182381">http://vimeo.com/34182381</a><br>
<br>Best, Jeff Davis<br>
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"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."<br>
Sophia Loren<br>
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