Deepak Chopra & Intent

When Illusions Refuse to Die (Part 3)

Friday August 22, 2008

Categories: Politics
The saddest part about the period of sleepwalking that the U.S. has experienced over the past eight years is that we don't have to return to the status quo before Bush was elected. History can move forward to the benefit...
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Yosyama
August 22, 2008 10:23 PM

The most astonishing is that man sleepwalking on earth is as long as history itself. Still the U.S. descended into deeper sleep after 2nd World War. I wonder if any of you can imagine a U.S. which doesn't and never really had much to contribute to the rest of the world. Just being normal people, does that sound good enough for you (?)

Keegan
August 23, 2008 11:30 PM

The illusion that I think you are talking about is one that is shared, quite frankly, with a lot of the world today, only it is dormant because of a lack of wealth or strong regulation. The American people, as a collective pile of walking DNA, are little different from other nations, were they in our shoes with our history.

I agree that the US is addicted to unregulated wealth, but, we need a global awakening from this national sleepwalking. Dictators of small poor countries, in my opinion, are suffering from similar madness, only there is less money to go around.

The US and the rest of the world needs to have a realization that we will defeat ourselves and our own interests if we continue to act mostly for self or for country. Humankind's best achievements stand only because of human cooperation for the betterment of all. Our world is a cold and dark place without cooperation. Perhaps that is the only way we can solve our problems.

frgough
August 26, 2008 9:31 AM

And they said dinosaurs were extinct, and yet we have here a living breathing example, spewing his ancient, lumbering marxist invectives against the evils of capitalism, completely ignoring that it has created the most prosperous, free-est nation in the history of the planet.

I love the particularly insidious rag on rich vs. poor, completely ignoring the fact that billions of people around the world would love to be in American poverty. The average poor person in the United States suffers from obesity, has two television sets and automobile and air conditioning. Go tell someone in Nigeria how unfair capitalism is to the poor.

Hey, Mr. Blogger. Let me clue you in. The only way to guarantee equality of outcome is to institute a dictatorship. But I doubt you ever thought of that since your mental processes never left the shallow end of the pool.

hootie1fan
August 26, 2008 11:45 AM

There is nothing free about a free market system in which corporations are allowed access to Government in ways the people are not, in which the corporations not only lobby government, but write the laws that are designed to stifle and crush competition, laws that govern us all.
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Bob
August 26, 2008 12:23 PM

"Capitalism prevails as a system that..."

...enabled Deepak Chopra to make a fortune by bilking the public with New Age nonsense.

Deepak, if it weren't for capitalism, you'd be back in India and living a much different life.

Marko from Milwaukee
August 26, 2008 4:50 PM

Yes, I like cut of your jib Deepak. What I think you are getting at is called Conscious Capitalism.

It still allows great wealth for those who earn it and work for it. It gives the very wealthy the option and consideration to be more caring and generous in a way that benefits many more than just a few.

We will still have poor people as well.

Except poor people will have adequate housing, health care and basic needs met as a part of just being a human being whom we all care for.

Those who desire the boats and airplane toys can still get them. They just don't have to get them in a way that creates poverty to others in doing so.

Dakin
August 26, 2008 6:29 PM

The problem with this anti capitalistic theory is that it lacks any mention what the source of poverty is,Over Population! To many people wanting the same thing. When an uneducated poor woman who can't feed or house herself decides to make a child she can not feed or cloth or house,she is being selfish and harming the planet and society. In America they know because of our screwed up socialist laws, we the tax payer have to pay for that whole child's life. We need soup lines and army style housing for the poor rather than,the same standard of living as those who work,in essence a reward for selfish decisions. I personally can' afford health care because I have to pay about 5000 $ a year in public school tax,and I don't have kids. How about we all stop mandating charity and spend our money on what we feel is important.

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