Comments on: The Ideology of Greed

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Tue, 24 May 2005 02:36:00 +0000

Sure, Joe…if we just popped up out the blue and started making war on Arabs you’d have a good point that you wouldn’t even have to make, it would be so painfully obvious.

By: joeS

joeS — Tue, 24 May 2005 02:20:08 +0000

Take heart folks, the fact that in the United States there exists media that is critical of it’s own country probably is a good sign. Usually when you don’t seen critisism it means something has gone wrong. Hey, maybe there might be some postive things to learn, because when you think your perfect, well, it’s probably down hill from there. What are some things that could be improved in this country, well how about health, obesity and it’s related problems is doing in this country, economicaly and of course physically. Morally, the war on terror may kill the terrorists, but it in doing so it puts in place a government that condones torture, by exporting it to other countries like Syria. Is it wonder that the world takes pause at what values it wants to import from the United States with stories like Columbine, and McVey. The United States was born from noble ideals, it is with ideals that not with intolerance and beligerence that it will remain noble. If the United States continues to wage a policy of fear, has it not already lost?

joeS

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Tue, 24 May 2005 02:13:19 +0000

Keith_Indy ó Well, we could burn a Japanese flag outside the offices of Newsweek… that seems to be a traditional piece of free expression…

By: Kevin P

Kevin P — Mon, 23 May 2005 22:27:33 +0000

Keith:

I don’t read Newsweek myself but if you watch any of the programs on MSNBC or NBC boycotting them is a good outlet for your disgust.I wrote a very polite but very outraged letter to the MSNBC website and informed them of the 3 programs I will never watch again and if enough people tell them that the propaganda that they promote has economic consequences they might listen although I doubt it.I have never been fond of economic boycotts but I am doing this as much for my own need to do something rather then the hope that it will make any difference.It is good for the soul.

By: Keith_Indy

Keith_Indy — Mon, 23 May 2005 19:02:14 +0000

I’d boycott Newsweak, but then I’d have to buy it in the first place…

I’d flush Newsweak down the toilet, but then I’d have to buy it, and unclog the toilet…

I’d throw a flaming copy at their offices, but then I’d have to buy it, fly to their offices, and then possibly be charged for the act…

Just aren’t to many effective ways to protest them.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Mon, 23 May 2005 16:51:39 +0000

Kyda, is this it?

By: Kyda Sylvester

Kyda Sylvester — Mon, 23 May 2005 16:27:24 +0000

Wasn’t it a newsweek cover years ago that declared “God is Dead”?

newsweek: “America is dead.”

America: “newsweek is the detritus of old media’s putrefying cadaver.”

By: PJ

PJ — Mon, 23 May 2005 15:59:42 +0000

More Newsweek covers, different strokes for different folks:

http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/?p=83397923

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Mon, 23 May 2005 14:51:20 +0000

In an earlier thread I referred to Newsweek as The Butchers of 57th Street for their callous disregard of the human damage their Koran article did overseas.

I was wrong.

They are not butchers; they are simple pimps and prostitutes. The truth they claim to honor they abuse as casually as a whore’s sex and with as little regard, for nothing more than a short-term financial gain.

They deserve no more than the scorn such normally deserve, and nothing better than the nameless grave in the potter’s field of American letters at the end of their path.

By: Sandy P

Sandy P — Mon, 23 May 2005 05:29:00 +0000

–But antiAmericanism is still there and I suppose it always be.–

Terrye, always has been. Outside of WWI, WWII and the Revolution – where no one would give US any credit, when have we ever been liked?

We are the original rogue nation, and we have been sticking our middle finger in the air for almost 229 years. Brits feel we took their birthright away. Frogistan feels we took everything away. The BBC’s been against us for decades and they are the most widely listened to radio station on the planet. No surprise the world “hates” us, especially the past 40 years. I spent 3 years in a chat room where 1 topic was “should the US give up the Constitution?” A reason – it’s an archaic 18th century document and has no place in the 21st century. It worked well then, but now….It all comes back to they think their way is better and we know our way is. hehehehehehe

We wanted to trade w/them, but be left alone otherwise. Haven’t you ever wondered why other nations have not specifically set up their government like ours; modeled their constitution on ours; and adopted some of our Bill of Rights?

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—Both of the above editions featured a cover-story article by Andrew Moravcsik, titled “Dream on, America”. (This was translated into Japanese as “Yume no kuni Amerika ga kuchihateru toki”, which is even harsher; it means, roughly, “America, the dream country, is rotting away”.) —

What they’re saying is true from a certain POV (sorry ANH reference, couldn’t resist) — their POV. They’re losing power and the ideals/ideas/policies they put in place don’t work. It’s no fun anymore. They’re just full of anger.