Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "Capitalism vs The World: A Guide to Surviving a World without Hope | Ece Temelkuran" video.

An insane paranoid rant - but fun. Get real kid.
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@redlightmax The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Which is not a society. A society is a small group of people who get together to share a common interest - such as model trains or knitting.
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@ljt3084 She cut through contemporary misconceptions with the cutting edge of reason is the simplest answer, I suppose. Communities and society are just buzzwords to aid the practice of sociology. They really don't exist in any real sense, unless artificially generated for some political purpose. The family and the nation are the only real and unalienable divisions into which people may be placed. All divisions in between are artificial, fragile and usually meaningless.
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@MartintheTinman Any time.
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@ChrisPage68 No. It was a charming fantasy, no more.
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On the contrary, Big Corporate is restructuring capitalism and utilising mind control as expertly uses in communist states is part of the process.
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and she was right on both counts.
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@somedeveloperblokey I understand reality very well. Communities, societies etc only exist when a group pf people formally agree that they should do so. Even then the segregation is entirely artificial. If I am a senile black person living in Hackney. for example. what community to I belong to? The senile community? The black community? The Hackney community?
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@djturbine7565 Communal groups exist. Societies exist. But "society" as a concept covering a country, or the whole of humanity, does not exist.
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@sososoprano1 The concept of nationhood is clearly important to the process of governance. It is not an abstract thing. It is a reality. It is a political unit. But it is not "society" which is jus an amorphous notion; an abstraction, in other words.
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@maggiehyder7075 Greed is simply the urge to survive.
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@andysimons9226 This is hardly central to the initial argument. Society is an abstract notion. A country is not. It has clearly defined legal parameters and a system of governance agreed upon by either force of arms or democratic process.
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Bell in Da Night How do you know what a chimp thinks?
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@RussCR5187 That's where you're wrong. A nation is a defined administrative unit. "Society" and "community" are just vague concepts.
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@maggiehyder7075 I'm not sure where St Francis describes greed as such, but you could be right. In any case I think it can be safely said that while greed fuels endeavour, excessive greed may have unwelcome consequences!
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@RussCR5187 I think the difference lies between the definition of "society" as a semi-ephemeral concept and "a society" which is indeed one of several words which can be used to describe an aggregate of people.
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@djturbine7565 Exists in the abstract? Sure, but an abstract concept has no place in the harsh world of political reality, other than as an idea which can be utilised as some sort of slogan.
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@sososoprano1 You've got me with "Morris aware". What is that?
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@capturedflame No I'm not.
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@mjc01 Not at all! It is the sweet voice of reason if you listen hard enough!
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@mjc01 Pathetic, Paul
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Bell in Da Night These chimps are clearly socialists!
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@djturbine7565 The point I am making is the point you make: some concepts are purely conceptual, whereas others have an actual reality.
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@djturbine7565 You're probably right. I'm not all that intelligent - I just like asking awkward questions.
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@mjc01 Without greed there would be no progress. Sad but true.
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@modularsamples Greed is not synonymous with competition though. Hunter gatherers eat till they burst because they don't know when they're going to get lucky again! Greed is motivation. Capitalism structures that motivation. Greed is good. Capitalism is good.
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@modularsamples Then most of us are sentimental fools. And you don't have to be jealous or hateful to be greedy; quite the reverse, more often than not.
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@thoughtfortheday7811 Hypocrisy and politics go hand in hand, as do credulousness and religious belief. St Francis would have made a poor Prime Minister.
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@EM-lz9kg Who is the "we" in this case? I lived under her Prime Ministership too and , being young and foolish, I failed to appreciate her pragmatism. (Incidentally, one of the most unpleasant memories of my childhood was being required to drink a third of a pint of lukewarm milk each morning.)
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