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“Black Glasses Like Clark Kent”
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In 2004, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke. Author Terese Svoboda‘s uncle checks into a pyschiatric ward.
Her uncle Don – a successful, prosperous and charming extrovert, in the golden years of life – has plunged into a deep depression, triggered apparently by the publicity surrounding Abu Ghraib.Terese Svoboda’s father begins to illuminate the situation: her uncle was an MP in occupied Japan, working at a military prison housing wayward GI’s. Although she views it as a nuisance, she agrees to try to write his story. Her uncle then begins sending her audio recordings on cassette, of his memories of his time in occupied Japan.
The final tape is blank, save for recorded exerpts of a radio program on Abu Ghraib. Her uncle then puts a shotgun into his mouth.
Ms. Svoboda then begins to dig: her uncle has planted a secret, and she is driven to try to find out what was really going on over there, to confirm the details he provided, to try to understand what drove him to suicide.
The resulting book is entitled Black Glasses Like Clark Kent.
When all is said and done, the smoking gun is ephemeral. What emerges is a picture of the occupation, where allied soliders conducted themselves with carte blanche capacity to do anything they saw fit to do, under a blanket of press censorship; of one where military justice was asymmetrically applied to african americans; one where executions were quietly carried out and largely undocumented.
Interesting Experiment Using Capitalist Philosophy
“An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Ron Paul’s libertarianism worked and that the free market would create prosperity
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“An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Ron Paul’s libertarianism worked and that the free market would create prosperity
Have RIM, Nokia & Apple provided Indian Military with backdoor access to cellular comm?
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Abortion a bigger problem than joblessness, says Catholic Church
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During his Boxing Day sermon, the Bishop of Córdoba, Demetrio Fernández, said there was a conspiracy by the United Nations. “The Minister for Family of the Papal Government, Cardinal Antonelli, told me a few days ago in Zaragoza that UNESCO has a program for the next 20 years to make half the world population homosexual. To do this they have distinct programs, and will continue to implant the ideology that is already present in our schools.”
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Pvt. Danny Chen, 1992–2011
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All of Area Man’s Hard Work Finally Pays Off For Employer
Well, I view myself mostly as a liberal, but here I’ll have to object:
In my humble opinion, this experiment in practical capitalism failed right at the start, when “The professor then picked the richest white kid, named Rand, in the class and told him “You don’t have to do any work”.”
Thats not capitalism, thats feudalism. The entrepreneur in real capitalism does one extremely important thing: He takes the risk. I was myself involved in several small businesses, and I know what risk means and why it is so important that someone has the balls to take it. Anybody who does not believe this should try to make a living as an entrepreneur on the free market, thinking that one can take so all the fruits of ones labor for himself. One will very quickly see so whats the difference between entrepreneurship and employment. A lot of wannabe entrepreneurs very quickly change this status back for the status of employee, more than willingly to give away a fraction of their fruits of labor to a boss.
But why are so many people rightfully angry with the current situation? The problem with todays economical system is not libertarianism, but rather that we slipped into neo-feudalism, where an arrogant elite thinks it is entitled to guaranteed profits and bonuses while the populace should take the risk.
Furthermore, the analogy between grades and money is extremely weak. And there are a lot more points in this experiment which make it an extremely bad critique of capitalism, but rather a quite good example why feudalism is a bad system. Many people compare correctly todays situation to the years directly before the French Revolution, but seem to neglect that it was not capitalism which failed in 1789 and was violently overthrown, but feudalism.