Sunday, December 14, 2008
I disagree
After watching the more recent Zeitgeist movie, "Zeitgeist, The Addendum," which is mainly about the economy, I found myself agreeing with it up until the last part. They said we need a system without money. My response to that is; who will decide who gets what and how much? Money is a means of civilised trade, in and of itself it's neutral and definitely not the root of all evil. We need money as a means of bartering in a free market place. No where has this been better expressed than in Ayn Rand's novel, "Atlas Shrugged," a book I think everyone needs to read. In it, one of the characters, Francisco D Anconia, made a speach at a party in response to a lady complaining about greed and concluding that money is the root of all evil. He began with the question, "So you think money is the root of all evil?" And went on to say that it is the root of all good and made his case with irrefutable logic, articulate clearity, and profound meaning. It was a great speach.
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