Maybe it's like corporations, where you praise your allies and demonize enemies, in the proportion they help/obstruct you from your goals? One CEO might privately tell his buddies, "Damn, Bob's corporate culture is dysfunctional." But nevertheless, when you cooperate, you try to solve each others' problems.
(I suppose a big problem is keeping your populace in line...)
Michael Catolico wrote:
> it is in fact a pure celebration of the ingenuity of capitalism for
> "solving" just about any problem possible. what of course in unstated
> is that most of the problems addressed were created by the very system
> being praised. solutions under this context become simply a matter of
> choices to be made in the marketplace (e.g. buy wasteful and
> environmentally damaging energy or buy energy in a sustainable and
> conscientious way - but no matter what "buy").
Is it like that line? "Capitalism is like alcohol -- the cause and solution of life's problems!"
Tayssir