Hobbes
Well-Known Member
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I've been loosely following Venezuela's spiral into madness and I'm struck by the similarities in the decline of society in Atlas Shrugged - the demonization of individual advancement as profiteering; criminalizing free market and the ability to keep prices in pace with inflation; government army troops taking over private business and property; the creation of a new vocabulary to demonize the individual and glorify the state.
Watching them in the news every few days is like a strobe light on an insane dance.
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Chavez takes control of foreign supermarket
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8464741.stm
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Venezuela nationalizes foreign-owned supermarket chain
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116434§ionid=351020704
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I've been loosely following Venezuela's spiral into madness and I'm struck by the similarities in the decline of society in Atlas Shrugged - the demonization of individual advancement as profiteering; criminalizing free market and the ability to keep prices in pace with inflation; government army troops taking over private business and property; the creation of a new vocabulary to demonize the individual and glorify the state.
Watching them in the news every few days is like a strobe light on an insane dance.
.
Chavez takes control of foreign supermarket
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8464741.stm
.
Venezuela nationalizes foreign-owned supermarket chain
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116434§ionid=351020704
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