Never feel sorry for having to disagree with me Steve, you'd be either a hypocrite or brain dead if you never did. After all, I've disagreed with you in the past havn't I? However, when I said everyone should act like Christ, I didn't mean it in entirely the same context you took it. I meant EVERONE. Perhaps I should have said muslims should act like Mohammed, Hindus should act like whichever one of their pantheon is most benevolent, etc. Imagine if the people of every country and culture woke up one morning and suddenly realised whjat fucking idiots their leaders had made of them. All of a sudden they'd be meeting in the middle, talking and realising that the other lot weren't the bunch of marauding demons their bosses had made them out to be. All of the bosses would be wailing, gnashing their teeth and leaping up and down, ordering their blokes to start killing again and they guys on the ground would just look round and say, "no. Fuck you pal, I'm getting on well with this bloke and his familly for the first time in decades." All of a buggering sudden all the arseholes who'd made such pain for people would find themselves without any power.
I disagree with August's thoughts about capitalism possibly falling. I neither see that, or relish the prospect. Capitalism at it's base has a big thing going for it. In principle, someone living in a capitalist society, can achieve what they want to, by hard work. Communism however, splats the people together in a big, grey, indistinguishable mess, where no individuality is valued. Ugh!
The biggest problem of all, is that the mass perception of both these things are not what either was supposed to be like. Communism in it's basic form was supposed to be something like what JC himself preached. I know that will piss off a lot of christians here, but the shit that happened in Russia was not what people like Stakhanov bled themselves dry to achieve. It was a hi-jacked pile of shit and it was a good day when that Berlin Wall came down. The idea of capitalism in it's "you get out of the society-what you put back into it" has been diluted and masked. People have used both regimes to further their own ends and line their own bastard pockets!
