Re: understanding Ed

>Paul,  are you sure you got Ed's point? Didn't I detect a bit of
facetiousness
>in Ed's post? Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think Ed is saying we should
hunt
>down capitalists, even to the extent of little coffee shop owners. His post
also
>showed how deeply capitalism (a term I find almost useless in the
post-communist
>era) or rather more precisely, markets, are involved in everything that
happens
>in the world. Thus the proper response is to try to mold markets o mitigate
>markets' worst effects, not to eliminate them. But I may have misunderstood
Ed.
>Ed will let us know.  Randy Groves
>

You are correct Randy.  My starting point was Pogo Possum: "We have seen the
enemy and he is us."  To which I would add: "And you really have to be
careful of him!"  Another starting point is a boss I once had, one of the
wisest men I have ever known.  He had several very large cats, and would
study human psychology by feeding them varying amounts of catnip and
watching their reactions.  His conclusion: "People are like pussycats, ten
percent conscious and ninety percent unconscious, and it is the ninety
percent that you really have to watch out for."

Hope this helps.

Ed Weick