[lbo-talk] cushy life

[Michael Dawson]

> The choice that confronts many is not between security, comfort, and
> pleasure on one hand and insecurity, discomfort, and pain on the
> other hand, however.  The choice for many is between more security,
> more comfort, and more pleasure for themselves and their families in
> the present and more security, more comfort, and more pleasure for
> all in the future, under the conditions where choosing the latter
> leads to less security, less comfort, and less pleasure for
> themselves and their families at least for a short term (maybe
> indefinitely), on top of the fact that choosing the latter may not
> actually help to bring about them at all.  Nevertheless, choosing the
> former doesn't ensure their permanence and may in fact lead to a
> worse future than choosing the latter.
> --
> Yoshie

That's pretty much capitalism in a nutshell, isn't it?  A system where the
ruling class no longer claims to be God's big toe (well, at least not as
blatantly), yet continues to rule because it likes what it gets.

Personally speaking, I'm in favor of doing intellectual work that documents
why this is suicidal for the species and also inferior to a more mature view
of pleasure and comfort.