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RE: Mercer/Idea for Noah




>As for Noah -- I hate to pile on, but his apparent inability to complete
> a post without an arcane (and, as a former political theory major I
> might add, simplistic and/or inaccurate) reference to communism,
> socialism and/or anarchy makes me wonder if there isn't a spot for Noah
> on Monty Python's "World Forum".  For those of you who don't remember:
>
> Game Show Host:  "And now, Karl Marx, for that beautiful lounge suite...
> Who won the FA cup final in 1949?"
>
> Marx:  "The workers control the means of production... the struggle of
> the urban proletariat..."
>
> Game Show Host:  "No, it was the Wolverhampton Wanderers, who beat
> Lester 3-1."

LOL. But in these cases you have to say the situation warrents it. People
are criticising players for holding out for the most money they can possibly
get, on of the axioms of capitalism "supply and demand". Bringing up the
alternatives, socialism and it's derivitives, points out the hypocrisy of
that argument.

Noah