iron_mike wrote:
put another way, who do you think are the 'top 3 stars' of world capitalism? i'd go USA, singapore, and switzerland. they fare well enough here. but if the top 3 stars of democratic socialism are, say, the nordics (or canada or germany), well, they fare better. but anyway,
-mike
One theory would be that idealism (be it conservative or liberal idealism) is closely related to unhappiness.
Idealism is the belief that the world is NOT as it should be. That the world SHOULD be forced to conform to some vision or "ideal."
The vision could be that of a small business capitalist paradise. The vision could be that of a communist workers paradise.
The more passionately one believes in the vision, the less capable one is of seeing the problem that the "ideal" creates. And an idealist never sees the circumstances in which their ideals don't work.
Some free market idealist might look at Norway and see "socialism."
A communist idealist might look at Norway and see an evil capitalistic society with "a fake veneer of socialism."
But what these idealist should see is a pragmatic mix of capitalism and socialism.
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Velocibuddha: Mar 20, 17 8:39