Those were some disturbingly patronizing words from Andrew Carnegie. Yet still, Carnegie built and funded the perpetuation of libraries and museums in the post Civil War Industrial Age. Today's private equity and tech titans, make both the Robber Barons like Stanford, Rockefeller and Morgan, and the other uber wealthy individuals of the …
Those were some disturbingly patronizing words from Andrew Carnegie. Yet still, Carnegie built and funded the perpetuation of libraries and museums in the post Civil War Industrial Age. Today's private equity and tech titans, make both the Robber Barons like Stanford, Rockefeller and Morgan, and the other uber wealthy individuals of the time, such as Carnegie, seem like Frederich Engels in comparison.
The concept of the corporation was just getting started in Carnegie's time, and now, it is far, far bigger than Frank Norris' "Octopus", far more powerful, and aided and abetted by far more otherwise good people who work for them and depend upon them.
Louis Brandeis famously said that we can either have a working Democracy, or a Country led by the wealthy, i.e., an oligarchy. Looks like we've chosen the wrong path.
I'm surprised that Little Mikey ("He Likes It!") Johnson, a self-proclaimed prosletyzing Christian would take the sycophantic of the wealthy classes position in opposition to a certain well known, and much beloved, sandal wearing prognosticator and prime persona in the New Testament who once said,
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven"
It is some kind of error to believe just because somebody claims to be Christian that they're doing it for what you might think of as the right reasons, impulses and spirit. Many branches of churches or their leaders, some of their adherents, are more obviously in it for the look, the power over others and that includes money power, which has been going on for decades if not centuries. Do not attribute reason to these people; they are in the sway of false religious interpretation for highly personal and selfish reasons which they will never admit to; it's a kind of mask that supposedly gets you political and maybe personal approval for whatever it is you're doing. Behavior masking as some kind of acceptability. It is always behavior that gives everything away at least in the long run. They are not reasonable people so don't expect to have your own reasonableness satisfied in that assumption.
If you're flaunting your Christianity you're certainly not Christian.
And that's where it all came from anyway, the handy fact that is unhandy for so many people, Jews had been living this way and working it out already for the previous oh give or take 1,500 years ...
Like your throwing a Bible at Mike Johnson. Thought about Carnegie’s libraries, but those built by communities mean more to the communities. Ownership is powerful for generations. (Look at Beyoncé and “western” music!)
Little Mickey was "elected" to Congress unopposed. He didn't have to argue or justify a platform. He didn't have to defend his Christian beliefs and how they should be the law of the land. There was no one to argue against or discuss merits or pitfalls of ideals. In other words, he doesn't feel the need respect other ideas.
Yes, and as David Pepper reports, those who run unopposed become more radical, because there aren’t any debates or competition to moderate their positions to reflect their constituencies. Although I suspect the constituencies of people like Johnson or Jim Jordan are plenty extreme.
Those were some disturbingly patronizing words from Andrew Carnegie. Yet still, Carnegie built and funded the perpetuation of libraries and museums in the post Civil War Industrial Age. Today's private equity and tech titans, make both the Robber Barons like Stanford, Rockefeller and Morgan, and the other uber wealthy individuals of the time, such as Carnegie, seem like Frederich Engels in comparison.
The concept of the corporation was just getting started in Carnegie's time, and now, it is far, far bigger than Frank Norris' "Octopus", far more powerful, and aided and abetted by far more otherwise good people who work for them and depend upon them.
Louis Brandeis famously said that we can either have a working Democracy, or a Country led by the wealthy, i.e., an oligarchy. Looks like we've chosen the wrong path.
I'm surprised that Little Mikey ("He Likes It!") Johnson, a self-proclaimed prosletyzing Christian would take the sycophantic of the wealthy classes position in opposition to a certain well known, and much beloved, sandal wearing prognosticator and prime persona in the New Testament who once said,
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven"
It is some kind of error to believe just because somebody claims to be Christian that they're doing it for what you might think of as the right reasons, impulses and spirit. Many branches of churches or their leaders, some of their adherents, are more obviously in it for the look, the power over others and that includes money power, which has been going on for decades if not centuries. Do not attribute reason to these people; they are in the sway of false religious interpretation for highly personal and selfish reasons which they will never admit to; it's a kind of mask that supposedly gets you political and maybe personal approval for whatever it is you're doing. Behavior masking as some kind of acceptability. It is always behavior that gives everything away at least in the long run. They are not reasonable people so don't expect to have your own reasonableness satisfied in that assumption.
If you're flaunting your Christianity you're certainly not Christian.
Like I said before I am more Christian than any of these crooks and I am Jewish.
I have a dear friend who told me 40 years ago (and reiterated it 2 years ago) "For an atheist, you are one of the most Christian people I know."
Exactly! This is my experience too. I have pretty strong opinions about the subject.
There was a time I spent visiting the Harvard campus when Greg Epstein was the Humanist chaplain there.
We can do a lot of good from the Back Row Ally House.
And that's where it all came from anyway, the handy fact that is unhandy for so many people, Jews had been living this way and working it out already for the previous oh give or take 1,500 years ...
Exactly, the words of Jesus himself....
I know them well, only two I can think of are the real real.
We’re seeing Justice Brandeis’s statement play out now, and we could lose our own government to a wannabe dictator.
Like your throwing a Bible at Mike Johnson. Thought about Carnegie’s libraries, but those built by communities mean more to the communities. Ownership is powerful for generations. (Look at Beyoncé and “western” music!)
Little Mickey was "elected" to Congress unopposed. He didn't have to argue or justify a platform. He didn't have to defend his Christian beliefs and how they should be the law of the land. There was no one to argue against or discuss merits or pitfalls of ideals. In other words, he doesn't feel the need respect other ideas.
Yes, and as David Pepper reports, those who run unopposed become more radical, because there aren’t any debates or competition to moderate their positions to reflect their constituencies. Although I suspect the constituencies of people like Johnson or Jim Jordan are plenty extreme.
Prognosticator?
Some shocks coming up, well maybe