Raeden Zen's Blog, page 530
July 12, 2012
"Above all, capitalism wastes human life. The U.S. spends billions to warehouse 2 million people—many..."
Above all, capitalism wastes human life. The U.S. spends billions to warehouse 2 million people—many of them young Black and Latino men—in overcrowded prisons. It provides sub-par education to millions of poor students, sending a message that their lives will amount to nothing.
Are people homeless in America because there’s a shortage of homes? And if that’s the case, is there a shortage of homes because we don’t have the concrete, the wood and the steel to build them?
The truth is that under capitalism, there’s no incentive to build low-cost housing for the homeless—because it isn’t profitable to do so.
The same goes for the more than 800 million people in the world who go hungry. It isn’t profitable to feed them. So food is stockpiled or destroyed rather than distributed to them.
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Is the free market efficient? (via yourworthyadversary)
It’s indeed a cruel world. I agree capitalism needs to be reformed.
Get rid of capitalism and see how many more people starve (Ref: China circa 1970).
July 11, 2012
Rant of the Day
This one comes from yours truly, Raeden Zen.
So I’m now up to five reviews on my debut satire. As most of you know, I’m a new author and I’m new to this process. So far, it’s playing out like the University of Oregon says it would:
“Because satire often combines anger and humor it can be profoundly disturbing - because it is essentially ironic or sarcastic, it is often misunderstood. Common uncomprehending responses to satire include revulsion (accusations of poor taste, or that ‘it’s just not funny’ for instance), to the idea that the satirist actually does support the ideas, policies, or people he is attacking.”
Um, so, the reviews so far suggest it isn’t very funny for one reason or another and that I love to swim in sex, booze, and drugs. It’s crazy because I’m attacking the idiotic finance policies of Western society (re: endless money printing), the ridiculous drug culture and hypocrisy of our finest universities, and what is becoming very totalitarian-like policies of the US government (re: Drone Wars).
The reviews run the gamut from 2 stars to 5 stars. One reviewer says, “An exceptionally written satire by a debut writer destined to become a classic,” while another says, “I didn’t like it at all!” I don’t know, maybe it’s a sign I did write an effective satire.
